Schmaltzy Seattle Quotes

#1. Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

Elisabeth Shue

#2. Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

Robert Jordan

#3. Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

E. M. Forster

#4. I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.

Paulo Coelho

#5. We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. Literature is like a subtle concoction of laboriously collected peripherals called words, intellect,thoughts,imagination,creativity and aestheticism brewed together to form a resplendent work of art.

Shilpa Sandesh

#7. With any luck at all," he said, "we should soon be safely in the Fire Swamp.

William Goldman

#8. According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.

Bill Vaughan

#9. When The Murderdolls started it was a really cool thing, especially for me because I had never done anything on that scale before. Even for our drummer and bass player it was their first really big band.

Wednesday 13

#10. When I was born, the speed limit was two miles an hour. They'd only just repealed the law where a man had to walk in front of every motor car waving a flag.

Henry Allingham

#11. Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing them into our own preferred ideas and gestalts...

Irvin D. Yalom