Stallholder Traders Quotes

#1. My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.

John Updike

#2. In times like these, who had either the leisure or the inclination to indulge in a touch of elegance?

Yu Hua

#3. Satan is a powerful adversary who knows you almost as intimately as does the Lord. He attacks through the mind and flesh, trying to separate you from Christ." "That

Francine Rivers

#4. Marina Warner's Monuments and Maidens explains how it comes about that individual men's names and faces are enshrined in monuments, supported by identical, anonymous (and "beautiful") stone women.

Naomi Wolf

#5. The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.

Bernard Beckett

#6. Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened.

John Oates

#7. Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

#8. We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

Dave Eggers