Smarra Quotes

#1. Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)

John Clute

#2. A high quality life starts with a high quality you!

Cheryl Richardson

#3. Fellows are just naturally interested in a good piece of work and have no unnatural restrictions in looking it over. Perhaps, and may the sahibs of the Fogg forgive me for thinking it, this simple, curious outlook of healthy men is more important than some of the monuments themselves.

Robert M. Edsel

#4. My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.

Marie-Antoine Careme

#5. At least not until the Terror took hold of him. Not until he saw, night after night, a little boat being rowed across the river. Not until he saw it return at dawn. Not until he saw what his Untouchable son had touched. More than touched.
Enter.
Loved.

Arundhati Roy

#6. Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Marcelene Cox

#7. I suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I've not done any for a good long while now. I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry. I didn't hate it, but I was yearning to do something different. I was on a gradient. It was a gradual thing.

Agyness Deyn

#8. I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them.

Thighpaulsandra

#9. Billy the Kid shooting all those people over in New Mexico has made gunfighting real popular with the public.

Larry McMurtry

#10. No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else.

Elle Macpherson

#12. There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

Antonio Munoz Molina

#13. A single-continent world would be expected to contain only about a third as many mammalian species as currently exist.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#14. No one is yet using figuratively to mean literally; the confusion, such as it is, is all in one direction.

Ammon Shea

#15. Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#16. Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

William Gilmore Simms