Usmed Quotes

#1. the nameless maiden in the advertisement was like a thousand other clothing models he had seen in magazines - arched brows, big eyes, angular cheeks, pouting mouth, a fetching figure, and a haughty, revolted look, as though someone had just offered her a jellyfish to hold.

Herman Wouk

#2. You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.

Bruce Forsyth

#3. Perhaps the hardest lesson of all is that there is no such thing as 'getting it right'-least of all with the promulgation of quality.

Mary Walton

#4. I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

Tom Perrotta

#5. Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.

Herrick Johnson

#6. Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Buddha

#7. Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

Caitlin Flanagan

#8. Will you prey on those you consider friends and companions, or a stranger who already owes you his life? Know that each path is evil; you must decide which one is the lesser of two.

Julie Kagawa

#9. If you do that any more I'll have you whether you want to be had or not, he said, and I could tell he meant it.

Charlaine Harris

#10. Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. It is a world of words that creates a world of things.

J.M. Coetzee

#12. Skepticism was a drug for him. Life's vicissitudes had taught him never to be caught without it. A most useful drug, it magically invigorated his heart, transforming opprobrium into piety and ignominy into tolerance.

Juan Filloy