Schaffert Quotes

#1. Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.

Nancy Pearl

#2. Tiff needed the words on the page to become the voice in her head, her own voice, or an approximation of it, and she needed the paper and the sound of the scratch of her chapped fingertips against it as she fiddled with each page.

Timothy Schaffert

#3. I just don't believe in generalisations.

Julian Fellowes

#4. I believe everything is a metaphor for sex.

Terrance Hayes

#5. To be honest, today's runners may as well go back to being nude as them Lycra pants they wear don't really hide much, do they? It's plain to see that if Usain Bolt went back to the old ways of running in the nude he would have an advantage getting over the finish line before anyone else. It

Karl Pilkington

#6. You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago.

Timothy Schaffert

#7. Suicide is not the way out of bondage of pain. It is the threshold of eternal pain. Satan hisses lies wanting you to believe suicide is better than to serve the Lord.

Sue Raymond

#8. Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words just so, plunking one here, then one there, gauging how to sound worthy of his regard.

Timothy Schaffert

#9. I ended up in Broadmeadows orphanage - I don't know how that happened - whether she gave me up for adoption or the church was responsible. Whatever happened, she was a single mum.

Kerry Stokes

#10. After we ate our heaping slice of humble pie, we asked the missus if she could at least serve it up a la mode next time.

Timothy Schaffert

#11. If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

Bob Gill

#12. They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of it.

Nick Yapp

#13. Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard.

M.B. Dallocchio

#14. We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.

Owen D. Young

#15. He took from his coat pocket a handful of wadded-up cash, as if children had paid him directly with their sweaty clutches of dollar bills.

Timothy Schaffert

#16. All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.

Eric Bristow

#17. A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

Michael R. LeGault

#18. The boot, which was dull black and square-heeled, the motorcycle boot of persons who did not own motorcycles but wore the boots of those who did.

David Foster Wallace

#19. Kindness to your family costs you almost nothing but affords a wealth of goodwill.

Timothy Schaffert

#20. One day ... " Gabe whispered. "When my heart is mine again. When I'm not sharing it with a dying girl ... I'll give you everything."
"Gabe," I said, sighing. "Right now? I'm perfectly happy with the pieces. No matter how broken they may be.

Rachel Van Dyken

#21. There's a lot more emphasis placed on torsion and coil and leverage. Basically, the women are being taught very much along the same lines as the men. You don't have to consider strength as a factor so much. These girls are working out like fiends. It's a trend that's going to continue.

David Leadbetter