Usman Khawaja Quotes

#1. Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.

Elizabeth Wein

#2. Life is a sweet mistake that happened when the world wasn't looking.

Scott Bradfield

#3. The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

Horace

#4. There's no real alternative to what there is.

Louis Auchincloss

#5. Transformation is not automatic. It must be learned; it must be led.

W. Edwards Deming

#6. Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.

Janet Evanovich

#7. Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution.

Tipper Gore

#8. Superior people talk about ideas. Mediocre people talk about things. Little people talk about other people.

John Whitfield

#9. This," said Laurent, "is a little more - "
It was a word of sharp points: " - intimate," he said, "than ice."
"Too intimate?" Damen said. Slowly, he was kneading Laurent's shoulders.
He did not usually think of himself as someone with suicidal impulses.

C.S. Pacat

#10. She felt him pull her to him. His voice, acidic and sharp, buzzed in her ear. Soon ... I'll be all that's left.

Kelly Creagh

#11. Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

Cornelia Funke

#12. Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

Catherine Deneuve