Shalem Towers Quotes

#1. There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

Mark Twain

#2. Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

Sara Sheridan

#4. If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were both ten years old.

Nadeem Aslam

#5. In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.

Martha Gellhorn

#6. Never make a promise you can't keep.
Never look down on a person you can't help.
Never solicit a question you can't answer.
Never judge a person you don't understand.
Never condemn a person you don't know.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. With a volley of blasts it emerged from the shed, moving in a fierce and stately way. Mr. Shiftlet was in the driver's seat, sitting very erect. He had an expression of serious modesty on his face as if he had just raised the dead.

Flannery O'Connor

#8. stopped: a final swish in the tall grass

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me?

Chad Anderson

#10. Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

James Russell Lowell

#11. I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Madeleine Albright

#12. We are fragile creatures made of fragile parts.

Kate Bassett