Rosanne Beck Quotes

#1. But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he'd come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user.

Penelope Douglas

#2. For a shield from the storm, for a friend, for a love to keep me safe and warm ... I turn to you. For the strength to be strong, for the will to carry on ... for everything you do, for everything thats true, I turn to you.

Christina Aguilera

#3. Erik grinned. "Do or do not. There is no try."
Only Erik would quote Yoda in bed.

Piper Vaughn

#4. Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

Minoru Yamasaki

#5. I myself find waiting more tiring than action.

Winston Churchill

#6. Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
[A Conversation with Alice Munro, BookBrowse, 1998]

Alice Munro

#7. An angry man is unfit to pray.

Nachman Of Breslov

#8. The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. My studies are going well. The university library is my second home now. They've had to get me a private room because it takes me only a second to absorb the printed page, and curious students invariably gather around me as I flip through my books.

Daniel Keyes

#10. When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.

Carl Weathers

#11. At last she drifted into sleep, and in the country of sleep she found herself standing in the orchard where she had spoken with Uther, where she had dried his tears with her veil.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#12. Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#13. People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

Richard Rodney Bennett