Shalisha Alston Quotes

#1. No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Ulysses S. Grant

#2. The "to read' list is a place where most good books go to die...

Danny L. Deaube

#3. Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Richard Curtis

#4. It's the strings vibrating at the same time but separately that makes a good marriage. It messy, it's complicated and it's quite wonderful.

Hector Elizondo

#5. You weaseled your way into my life, Simon Lewis, and I don't know how or why or even when but it happened, and I kind of hate it but I can't change it, and here it is

Cassandra Clare

#6. There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

Lascelles Abercrombie

#7. Hydrated copper aluminum phosphate - Turquoise.

Kim Dare

#8. The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties.

Paul Fry

#9. Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#10. At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work.

Christine Kenneally

#11. With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.

Rene Dubos