Rob Roy Sayings

#1. I had never heard that before; and so poor Rob Roy who was killed at that hunt was my brother! I did not wonder that my mother was so troubled. It seems that horses have no relations; at least they never know each other after they are sold.

Anna Sewell

#2. In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.

George Clooney

#3. I must have liberty
Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.

William Shakespeare

#4. The trouble with influential books is that if you have absorbed the influence without ever reading the original, then it can sometimes be hard to appreciate the magnitude of its achievement.

Nick Hornby

#5. and she said, 'So there you are!' She asked Frank what he thought he was doing, and he said, 'Experimenting.' That's what Frank always used to say when people asked him what he thought he was doing. He always said, 'Experimenting.'

(p. 15)

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#6. Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly say whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy or I'm a good guy in wolf's clothing or sheep's clothing.

Chris Vance

#7. I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred.

Tess Gerritsen

#8. To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper
maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all ... They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover.

Robert Harbison

#9. I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.

Marcia Gay Harden

#10. Battle is for an army to win or lose; war is for civilization to win or lose.

Ian C. Esslemont

#11. I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

Isabella Rossellini

#12. I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.

Roma Downey

#13. Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck,
And hear a cry from a reeling deck!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#14. From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.

John Masefield