The Book Of Ivy Quotes

#1. Sometimes I think if I blink, you'll disappear

L.J.Smith

#2. I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

Ellen Glasgow

#3. God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

Melina Marchetta

#4. I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#5. Evil people can still keep promises. Many have done just that, girl, though they are usually not promises you 'rational' people wish them to keep.

Tim Reed

#6. But I want to be better than the lessons they taught me. I want my love to be greater that my hate, my mercy to be stronger than my vengeance.

Amy Engel

#7. I never tell the audience what to think of me. When I talk, how you consume it is up to you.

Colin Cowherd

#8. Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.

Jonathan Heatt

#9. I know the days can get long if you don't have a purpose.

Amy Engel

#10. Where there is no respect for life, there you will find evil.

O.R. Melling

#11. Then he spoke of James Joyce. He told about Joyce's family, his religion, his education, his writing. He spoke of a book called Dubliners and a story in the book titled "Ivy Day in the Committee Room." Regardless of race, regardless of class, that story was universal, he said.

Ernest J. Gaines

#12. Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#13. Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said.
"Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

John Green

#14. I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.

John Joseph Griffin

#15. I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.

Kellyn Roth

#16. There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight ... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

Paula Deen

#17. I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

Amy Engel

#18. You may feel like a voice in the wilderness, but it is your voice we are waiting to hear ... you are the determining factor.

Neale Donald Walsch

#19. How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?

Amy Engel

#20. I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.

Amy Engel

#21. Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#22. Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

Brit Marling

#23. Are you happy, Ivy?' he asks, surprising me.
In my whole life, I don't think anyone ever asked me that question.

Amy Engel

#24. My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by our side.

Amy Engel

#25. Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.

Amy Engel

#26. You're easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.

Amy Engel

#27. Isn't the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation?

Brian D. McLaren