Top 15 Thriftway Books Quotes
#1. If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to TWO children - ?" "We
Henry James
#2. Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
George Eliot
#3. There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.
Vivienne Westwood
#4. But if we never did the scary things in life we'd lead awfully boring lives
Belle Aurora
#5. Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.
Isaiah Berlin
#6. Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.
Frank Zappa
#7. I'm not ready for you to go." His voice was thick and smoky.
Denise Hunter
#9. I never know what you're thinking. "
" Maybe you should stop trying to get into my head. You probably wouldn't like it in there anyways. "
" I think you're wrong.
Meredith Wild
#12. You are too young," said one of the Directors, hesitating about his appointment as general. "In a year," answered Napoleon, "I shall be either old or dead.
J.G. Lockhart
#13. I remembered the dim winter light, the smell of damp earth and leaves, the eeriness that always attaches to a place once settled and civilized, but now reclaimed by the wilderness.
Lisa Tuttle
#14. Eyebrows and hair singed off, Hector is barely recognizable under a lathering of day-glow orange. He appears to have been tarred-and-feathered with orange tar and oatmeal feathers.
Ray Palla
#15. It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
Kate Christensen