Sharon Lynch Quotes

#1. Wordsmiths who serve established power ... castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

John Ralston Saul

#2. The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want.

James Richardson

#3. Even a thirsty man will not drink at the river where a crocodile waits.

Timothy G. Bax

#4. I only wanted to know, Prue. I be getting ancient and old, and the time draws nigh when life'll be a burden. I'd lief know as there was good in store for the best girl ever.

Mary Webb

#5. Jane Austen vs. My Penis [20w]
"It is a truth universally that a single man
in possession of a penis must be in want of pussy.

Beryl Dov

#6. Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

Norman Borlaug

#7. Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's.

Bram Cohen

#8. There is no rose without thorns.

Pam Munoz Ryan

#9. The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality.

Marty Rubin

#10. We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

Anton Zeilinger

#11. There is different sorts of treachery, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. Where did he go when he left us? I spied the new journal he had started using just last week and held it against my chest. This was who he was. But it also was not. It was sad and beautiful knowledge that a person cannot be found elsewhere but in his own spirit. No one could possess it.

Amy Tan

#13. Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. For who that noght dar undertake,
Be riht he schal no profit take
[For who that dare not undertake,
By right he shall no profit take.
i.e., Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]

John Gower

#15. The most attractive quality of all is dignity.

Sherry Argov