The Big Burn Timothy Egan Quotes

#1. I was never a dancer before 'Shake It Up'. - Author: Bella Thorne

#2. I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic. - Author: Joni Mitchell

#3. You make me feel like I'm drowning. - Author: Megan Duke

#4. The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other two. - Author: Chellie Pingree

#5. When she sings that song you're with that elderly couple in that pub in Deptford and the mundane becomes romantic and beautiful and I think that's probably the great thing about any sort of paintings or music or something, is just when nothing becomes everything - Author: Jools Holland

#6. I don't think it's cool for people to say, 'You shouldn't reference God because I don't believe that, and I don't want to hear it.' Well, there's a lot of stuff I don't believe that I still gotta hear. - Author: Steve Harvey

#7. If you stay on this path as long as I have, you'll soon learn that the road to providence leads right through perdition. And along that road, the devil's waiting to collect his pound of flesh. - Author: Jay Grewal

#8. People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried. - Author: Anna Chlumsky

#9. He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and misfortune. He felt very alone, on an interminable day full of evil omens, and the story, though resistant to some of his intentions, was at least a testimony to reality and coherence - Author: Jose Maria Merino

#10. You can't translate something
that was never in a language
in the first place. - Author: Chase Twichell

#11. O gods, If any gods will listen, I deserve Punishment surely, I do not refuse it, But lest, in living, I offend the living, Offend the dead in death, drive me away From either realm, change me somehow, refuse me Both life and death!
-- Myrrha, before being transformed into a tree - Author: Ovid

#12. Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there. - Author: Edward Young

#13. People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline ... The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again. - Author: Jennifer E. Smith