Sybilla Desk Quotes

#1. All I have besides food is grief.

Jael McHenry

#2. UPON FACES ANGEL TEARS ... YOUR VOICES IN OUR EARS

Widad Akreyi

#3. I'll be your puppy. What do you want me to do? Chew your slippers? Piss on the kitchen floor? Lick your nose? Sniff your crotch? I bet there's nothing a puppy can do that I can't do!

Neil Gaiman

#4. There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

Scilla Elworthy

#5. You must meet old Rowbotham, Bertie. A delightful chap. Wants to massacre the bourgeoisie, sack Park Lane and disembowel the hereditary aristocracy. Well, nothing could be fairer than that, what?

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. I'm a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. As Shakespeare put it in 'King Lear,' the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash.

Christopher Hitchens

#8. To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. He's not from here, that's the thing," Cub said.
"Just because he's the outsider, he has no say? Should we not read books, then, or listen to nobody outside this county? Where's that going to leave us?

Barbara Kingsolver

#10. So many people accuse and mistreat others just because of their present state of life, as if life is just a one day journey, and they forget that the story line can change tomorrow!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#11. I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.

Lorrie Moore

#12. Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?

Soheir Khashoggi

#13. No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

Meridel Le Sueur