Thanks God Picture Quotes

#1. Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

Jose Marti

#2. He had a curiously stunted sense of humor and loved practical jokes that veered dangerously close to cruelty. Once on a hot day he filled a friend's water jug with kerosene and mirthfully stood by as the friend took a mighty swig. The friend ended up in the hospital.

Bill Bryson

#3. New York had impressed me as a place where there was lots of money and not much difficulty in getting it.

James Weldon Johnson

#4. Echoes are more noisy than the source.

Toba Beta

#5. Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.

Chetan Bhagat

#6. He was desperate to tell his news to some other cat; he almost felt that if a mouse crossed his path he would stop to inform it that it was about to be eaten by a ThunderClan deputy.

Erin Hunter

#7. Does the half-life of information correlate with the decay of our attention? Is the Internet a kind of temporal gyre, sucking up stories, like geodrift, into its orbit? What is its gyre memory? How do we measure the half-life of its drift?

Ruth Ozeki

#8. I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

Bharati Mukherjee

#9. So you're saying the afterlife is hard on the libido? FYI, that's probably not a good bullet point for your recruiting brochure.

Rachel Vincent

#10. I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

K.d. Lang

#11. Only the Prince of Peace gives peace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.

Aberjhani

#13. I think the screen size chosen for the iPad is perfect for publishers to render content beautifully, for games to be played.

Mike McCue

#14. There's nothing wrong with the screaming style of singing, and I'll be the first to admit that it conveys an emotion. But I'm getting older, and I can't scream and shout about the same things anymore. The songs I'm writing with Stone Sour call for a lighter, different approach.

Corey Taylor

#15. Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.

Dani Shapiro