Silkie's Quotes

#1. Did ye know that the silkies put aside their skins when they come ashore, and walk like men? And if ye find a silkie's skin and hide it, he - or she - " he added, fairly, "canna go into the sea again, but must stay with ye on the land.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

Rachel Bilson

#3. There is not now, nor I suspect will there ever be, a le Carre novel with ninjas in it. Most serious novelists are wary of including ninjas in their writing. That's a shame, because many much-admired works of modern fiction could benefit from a few.

Nick Harkaway

#4. No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.

Ashley Judd

#5. If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.

Katharine Hepburn

#6. This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth.

Margaret Turnbull

#7. Stand up straight. If you stand up straight, you will instantly feel better about yourself, and you will project a better image to the world, one that says you don't feel like you have to be hunched over and closed off.

Chris Hardwick

#8. Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it and you rush it to the floor without reading it, and you pass it just because you're a Democrat and Democrats told you to do that.

Mike Ross

#9. In the end it wouldn't be the lucky ones left standing.

Rick Yancey

#10. The cross is proof that God loves sinners.

Jared C. Wilson

#11. Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

Nancy Kress

#12. Make your service systems so strong that everyone looks like a genius.

Ron Kaufman

#13. I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.

Andre Leon Talley

#14. Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

Ernest Renan

#15. The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Mike Schmoker