Torberg Wood Quotes

#1. I should have said the right thing just then, but I did not know what that would be, if such a thing existed, I did not think so, and those who said it did, knew nothing. So I said the first thing that came into my head.
"Are you afraid?". I said.

Per Petterson

#2. Even the silence
has a story to tell you.
Just listen. Listen.

Jacqueline Woodson

#3. But it's different for a girl, and Astor is at the age- It's not too dry, is it?" She said, frowning at my plate.
"It's perfect," I said.
"It is dry; I'm sorry. So I thought maybe if you would talk to her," Rita finished. I truly hoped she meant talk to Astor and not the pork chop.

Jeff Lindsay

#4. be him." "How would you know?" "It's just a prediction." I

Veronica Roth

#5. The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.

John Cage

#6. The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.

Camille Paglia

#7. We're not arguing, we're discussing,

David Nicholls

#8. I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. It's exhausting. You get cold.

Ally Walker

#9. The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us
and so, what has kept it going up to now
lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. If you have the spirit of understanding everything in a positive way, you will enjoy each and every moment of life, whether it's pressure or pleasure.

Rishika Jain

#11. The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

C.S. Lewis

#12. We have forgotten how to blush

Paul Washer

#13. To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

John Ford

#14. Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.

J. C. Watts