Rupert Birkin Quotes

#1. Anything added can be subtracted; anything verbose can be simplified; anything missing can be found. Manuscripts are not books but negatives waiting for the fixer that turns them into prints.

Chloe Thurlow

#2. She turned; she bruised under her heel the scaly head of this dark suspicion-as terrifying to her as his guilt was to him. 'O Absalom, my Absalom! Come, come, we will not entertain such a thought. God himself would not urge it upon a mother.

Theodore Dreiser

#3. A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.

Jose Bergamin

#4. There it is - a flash of relief crosses his expression. Searching for emotion in Sherlock's face is like bird watching. Ah, yes, the rare relief-bird.

Eva Morgan

#5. Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.

Rokia Traore

#6. Faithfully he followed the pattern of the scientist determined to interpret the facts to suit the theory.

Mark Clifton

#7. There will come a day when Anne Heche will be straight again.

Sandra Bernhard

#8. It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#10. You really should take up boxing, or fencing - "
"Fencing? What century are you from?"
" - or solving crimes."
"Are you prescribing me your company, Doctor?"
"Detective, you can read me like a book." She lifted her glass, and I clinked mine against it.

Brittany Cavallaro

#11. At every step of her rise, she did the work long before she was granted the title. It was like advancing through empty rooms. Nobody opposed her, yet nobody approved of her progress.

Ayn Rand

#12. I have been consistent by staying true to who I am and will continue to sing the type of songs that those who have continued to support my career expect from me.

Dionne Warwick

#13. I think the heart of every living thing on earth is beating in my body.

Jandy Nelson