Xela Quotes

#1. And now he was down there with Roger and the slut. Which was unfair, but it was how she found herself thinking of Xela more and more. How's that old joke go? she thought. The difference between a nymph and a slut? A nymph sleeps with everyone. A slut sleeps with everyone except you.

Peter Clines

#2. Big worms that move through the sand like it's water." Roger's level arm went up and down in a smooth wave. "Or the big thing in Star Wars. What if we step down there and the sand just turns into a big pit with a mouth at the bottom?" "For the record, it's called a Sarlacc," Xela said.

Peter Clines

#3. Debbie shuffled back through her notes. "The president of the Owyhee Land and Irrigation Company was Whipple Phillips." "Whipple?" chuckled Xela. "Yep." "Don't name 'em like that anymore," said Roger.

Peter Clines

#4. Xela rapped on the walls. "It's all sedimentary rock, isn't it? Not really solid." "Thus all the beams and supports," said Nate.

Peter Clines

#5. If you do not do your God-assigned task, throughout eternity there will be a job that has never been done.

Bob Jones, Sr.

#6. I will not subscribe to your switch; the on and off friendship.

Xela Ffonrims

#7. We are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.

Philip Jones Griffiths

#8. Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Ogden Nash

#9. It takes a special ear to appreciate the many sounds of good music.

Xela Ffonrims

#10. I had six good years and one bad one, and everyone was wondering whether I'd have a good one again.

Mike Lowell

#11. The worker is far more important to our Lord than the work.

Lettie Cowman

#12. Hate not a man for his tardiness for the only thing that is on time is; time it self.

Xela Ffonrims

#13. I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness.

Frederic Raphael

#14. Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

Vanessa Redgrave

#15. It amazes me how as beings in an unpredictable world, how we glorify our brothers falling.

Xela Ffonrims

#16. Birthdays;They never cease to exist, and like birthdays you will never cease to exist in my heart

Xela Ffonrims

#17. In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim.

Xela Ffonrims

#18. An experience which seeks not to change you, is one not worth having.

Xela Ffonrims

#19. Then he noticed her boys. They were standing side by side at the edge of the driveway, their plastic guns still in their hands and their faces pale and forlorn beneath the toy helmets, his own Tony, God bless him, with a comforting arm around each.

Alice McDermott