Smilist Riverhead Quotes

#1. No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in, the fear came trickling out. It hovered like a cloud of gas around her, threatening to penetrate her pores and poison her.

Stieg Larsson

#2. And this wasn't lying, not really. It was leaving out.

Stephen King

#3. You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.

Majel Barrett

#4. We live by information, not by sight.

Baltasar Gracian

#5. I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

Elizabeth I

#6. Sometimes I apologize. It started that way and we never did change it.

Douglas Engelbart

#7. There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. I gather we're old friends."
"By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years.

Amanda Hemingway

#9. Destiny demands you do better than your supposed best.

Jack Kent Cooke

#10. Fifteen years ago, France was the promised land of cooking. So I looked at a map, found five restaurants and faxed them to ask for a job. Within five minutes, I got a reply from the then three- star Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier.

Rene Redzepi

#11. I end up doing selfies 'cause I am so sad.

Rita Ora

#12. a heavy, hooded wool

Michael Palmer