Yoknapatawpha Press Quotes

#1. Age is reforming our bodies to better roll with the punches!

Sue Thoele

#2. We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

Mary E. DeMuth

#3. In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. My mother worked all of her life, she was a dance teacher and I also noticed, to be honest, that most of the male directors wanted to blow things up so there was like an open area for somebody who wanted to direct women movies, chick flicks, whatever you ... I don't call them chick flicks.

Garry Marshall

#5. For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.

Jon Hamm

#6. Ceremony-the wine of human existence - Morris R. Cohen

Barbara Jonas

#7. She realises how little she knows about this man. Her knowledge little more than a thin sheen of brightness, like reflected sunlight on an opaque pond.

Glenn Haybittle

#8. She's a poker player's wet dream. Sorry, sweetheart, you can't bluff for anything.

Katherine McIntyre

#9. I touch the tip of my finger to his lips. "There are secrets in here," I say. "I want them out."
He tries to bite my finger.
I steal it back.

Tahereh Mafi

#10. I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.

Sally Mann

#11. The back again carrying Bilbo, was grabbed from behind in the dark. He shouted

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with lots of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be.

Amy Poehler