Softs Quotes

#1. The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.

Annie Dillard

#2. I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.

Daniel Keyes

#3. I play on a soccer team.

Jake Short

#4. There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by

Neil Gaiman

#5. There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing.

Fran Lebowitz

#6. I live in Sheffield, and most auditions are in London, meaning I'm normally a bag of nerves on the train to London because you have all that time to think.

Jonas Armstrong

#7. Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not "be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly"

Margaret Thatcher

#8. The Lamb's Club is going to be a luxury bar and grill; we're not doing an overly fancy restaurant. We wanted to make a space that people will come to every day, almost like a very high-end bistro.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#9. I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

George Meyer

#10. When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes - I call them chocolate eyes - I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn't.

Marie Osmond

#11. All selling should spring from service

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#12. Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

John Boehner