Truck Driver's Daughter Quotes

#1. You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz

Ian Hislop

#2. Nothing worth while comes easy. Hard work just makes you appreciate it more.

Constance O'Day-Flannery

#3. Because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We can and will set standards. We can and will exercise leadership.

Richard M. Nixon

#4. Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman".

George Eliot

#5. One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

Rollo May

#6. Your strategy is the road map for bringing your goals to fruition ... Ask yourself, 'What are the steps I need to take to achieve this goal?' Be careful not to overwhelm yourself by taking on too much at once.

Lauren Mackler

#7. I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer.

Anne Lamott

#8. It's so hard to believe that someone might want me - all of me - fucked-up sexual desire, tangled family history, book-hoarding tendencies, everything.

Lilah Pace

#9. This one is for all the Edward fans, who by their letters, questions, and sheer interest let me know that they were as interested in knowing more about him as I was.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#10. How nice it is to know you are so profoundly happy, it's had me beaming all day.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

George R R Martin

#12. Everything we knew from life suggested that America would do what it liked ...

Peter Carey

#13. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.

Jeanette Winterson