Thomas Sorrell Quotes

#1. One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.

Walter Kasper

#2. I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

Noah Baumbach

#3. This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

Dave Eggers

#4. She knew what the laugh implied, and it angered her. Mrs. Wells don't you be getting any ideas about my husband.

Barry Gray

#5. If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

Seth Godin

#6. No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country's international reputation, how a nation's prestige can be raised by its medal count.

George Packer

#7. The new music, the bebop and modern jazz, wasn't music to him. It was choppy noise pretending to make music out of traffic jams.

Richard Flanagan

#8. So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the music. You make the beat, and you give it to them. And they write the rhymes.

Mark Ronson

#9. The hardest lesson in the world:
Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

Cormac McCarthy

#10. My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

James Fenton

#11. He sold his watch to buy her combs, and she sold her hair to buy a watch chain.

Anna Quindlen