Talented Son Quotes

#1. I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

Italo Calvino

#2. There is a price to be paid for any accomplishment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.

Josemaria Escriva

#4. She was furious, with the kind of fury peculiar to the nonpaying client. Those who can't afford private attorneys ... assumed legal aid was incompetent. Do-gooders were simply losers in disguise.

Laura Lippman

#5. If you fear to know the cost, the value will definitely be lost. Focus your attentions on the product, not the price.

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.

Gail Carson Levine

#7. I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Jenny Nimmo

#8. People say that marijuana is going to hurt my career. On the contrary, my fight career is getting in the way of my marijuana smoking.

Nick Diaz

#9. Your head is full of kelp.

Rick Riordan

#10. Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."

Dave Barry

#11. What? Who? You can't throw around pronouns like that without their antecedents if you want people to follow you.

Kevin Hearne

#12. Friendship's the wine of life.

Edward Young

#13. When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

#14. Sense is the song you sing out into the world, and the song the world sings back to you.

Ari Berk

#15. I went to Sunday school, Anastasia. It taught me a great deal." Catechism. Guilt. And that God abandoned me long ago.

E.L. James