Roddy Doyle The Snapper Quotes

#1. There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

Alison Lurie

#2. Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.

Suzanne Fields

#3. If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason.

Socrates

#4. It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.

Geddy Lee

#5. I had to stop. I threw my kindle across the room. My eyes were so filled with tears that the words were becoming blurry toward the end.

Penelope Ward

#6. Every reader should ask himself periodically "Toward what end, toward what end?" - but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.

Alan Perlis

#7. The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.

Lenny Abrahamson

#8. I did not grope the wife of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter or the daughter of Sen. Christopher Coons. I don't put drugs in drinks or give drinks to underage females. And all those photos about me inappropriately touching girls, they are blown-up.

Joe Biden

#9. Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up.

Frederick Lenz

#10. I reel in an uncanny intoxication of emotions, on minute bewildered and then frightened then the next, I swing from exhaustion to mania, from depression to tranquility and beneath it all, excitement fizzes as if my blood is filled with gas.

Patricia Cornwell

#11. I always knew I wanted to be in television when I was a kid, and I knew I wanted to model.

Lisa Leslie

#12. When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.

Julia Cameron