Roditin Quotes

#1. A candle is like a small sun, but the sun is like a large candle; examined closely, language turns out to operate through the lateral associations of metaphor, rather than through the vertical identifications of naming.

Jonathan Franzen

#2. Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.

Julie Schumacher

#3. In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

Anna Godbersen

#4. What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Rita Dove

#5. Again Mosca felt she was up in the rafters, watching the mice. Little mouse, witless with fear. Running the wrong way. And here she was, just watching. Becoming a part of it by doing nothing.

Frances Hardinge

#6. Adult fantasy gets a bad name. You think of Xena - Warrior Princess. If you don't do it expensively, it becomes tacky and you end up just appealing to 45-year-old single men.

Harry Lloyd

#7. Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.

Alexandre Dumas

#8. Faith keeps the person who keeps the faith.

Mother Teresa

#9. I love working in the markets, I love working with fabric. So I'm not that conditioned to one thing.

Donna Karan

#10. Some instruments seemed like they were held together with duct tape and prayers. Everything looked out of date.

Eoin Colfer

#11. He was poor and foolish and people will always have a place in their hearts for the harmless.

Tim Winton

#12. My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.

Dan Gable