Sandbakken Fripp Quotes

#1. But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.

Nigella Lawson

#2. You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

Jonathan Lethem

#3. The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

Martin Shaw

#4. Jamie's own face was lined with shadow, the firelight showing the mark of time and struggle on his flesh as wind and rain mark stone.

Diana Gabaldon

#5. The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#6. As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

Cao Yu

#7. I lowered onto the sweetest mouth I'd ever tasted and I never wanted to taste another for, God, thank you, she was the only thing that kept me from falling over the edge to the end of me.

Shelly Crane

#8. The cross is the crux, the crossroads, the twisted knot at the center of reality, to which all previous history leads and from which all subsequent history flows. By it we know all reality is cruciform - the love of God, the shape of creation, the labyrinth of human history.

Peter J. Leithart

#9. I used to paint pictures - what happened was, I used to draw and paint pictures. And some of my friends would be, like, 'Yo, you should put that on a T-shirt,' because that's where their brain would go.

Michael Che

#10. But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another to ignore the circumstances and time in or about which it was written.

Will Schwalbe

#11. What's real and what's unreal are like two balls that you alternatively toss in the air, catching one as you throw up the other.

Chloe Thurlow

#12. I don't play sports. The only sports I play is shopping. But there is a lot of walking involved in that ... running sometimes if there's a sale.

Jessica Simpson

#13. Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.

Dale Carnegie

#14. Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.

William Zinsser

#15. Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news.

Rich Lowry