Recasting Speech Quotes

#1. I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book ... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.

Nora Ephron

#2. The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.

Annie Jacobsen

#3. The sun and wind pour into the sheets on the line. There are bodies in the billowing, forms created and lost in a breath.

Lauren Groff

#4. He can't play
when someone is watching him," Justin almost sang into my ear. "Totally screws
up then."
"But you all
are watching him," I pointed out.
At the back of
the room, someone laughed. "Yeah, but we're not girls.

Piper Shelly

#5. Tell the viewer something that they need to know.

Kay WalkingStick

#6. I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

Amy Engel

#7. He was a predator - a big, scary, hot-looking predator.
And I wanted to be his prey.

Wulf Francu Godgluck

#8. Beast!" said he. "You're the beast. He takes his liquor like a Christian. Come out of the way, Prendick!

H.G.Wells

#9. They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

Gillian Flynn

#11. Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.

Robert Grosseteste