Wexford Quotes

#1. I like to talk. Talking is kind of my thing. If talking had been a sport option at Wexford, I would have been captain. But sports always have to involve running, jumping, or swinging your arms around. You don't get PE points for the smooth and rapid movement of the jaw.

Maureen Johnson

#2. Back at home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford, some people just aggressively pretended nothing was happening.

Maureen Johnson

#3. Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character.

Ruth Rendell

#4. People were freaked out, but they showed it in weird ways. Back home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford people just aggressively pretended nothing had happened.

Maureen Johnson

#5. No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me for information.
At Wexford, they seemed to extract what they wanted to know by covert staring.

Maureen Johnson

#6. I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.

Maureen Johnson

#7. What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

Michael Josephson

#8. The urge is to create. The outcome belongs to God.

Sophy Burnham

#9. It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.

Bertrand Russell

#10. Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

Sarah Bernhardt

#11. Brilliant results don't just show up by chance. The finest things in life take patience, focus and sacrifice.

Robin Sharma

#12. I am honored to receive the James Beard award and so incredibly proud of my entire team at Eleven Madison Park.

Daniel Humm

#13. Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

John Mayer

#14. Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

Helen Fisher

#15. Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.

Caro Clarke

#16. My seminars are for you. They are moments, hours and evenings outside of time. A chance, in a highly charged environment, to meditate, find stillness, and remember who you are. A place, with others of like mind, to find and lose yourself in the transcendental light.

Frederick Lenz

#17. If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?

Fannie Lou Hamer

#18. Even the poorest among us deserves the dignity of equality.

The Prophet Of Life

#19. There's been a fragmentation of how the market functions, but I believe printed books are here to stay. People like the tactile experience, the smell of them; there's a great romance to them.

Jonathan Galassi

#20. We drove in to Biarritz and left the car outside a very Ritz place.

Ernest Hemingway,

#21. The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.

Idries Shah