Sally Santesson Quotes

#1. All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

Norma Fox Mazer

#2. I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. Not comfort for her, but for him. Putting him in a place where he had total control over her. Where he could soothe her, cherish her, protect her.

Lorelei James

#5. A lot of things in history change over time.

Jeb Bush

#6. Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?"
"And you say there's no afterlife.

John Green

#7. I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.

Neil Patrick Harris

#8. When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#9. I was just thinking about me having children. Or being a grandma!" She giggled. "Think I'll be fat and have gray hair?"

"I sure hope so," her father said, laughing himself.

Sharon M. Draper

#10. To the extent that the scientist's capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by government or industry he is no longer his own master.

Lewis Mumford

#11. I always think any circumstances can be funny. Not that I'm irresponsible, but when things go wrong, I always come up with a joke or think of something funny to say.

Brian Helgeland

#12. Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

Thomas De Quincey

#13. Tragedies might be bursts of misery, but regret was forever.

Brendan Duffy