Zella add a quote by Claudia Clark

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:06:10 -0800

"As she had done when she introduced the US president in Berlin, she addressed him publicly with the informal du for the first time since the NSA controversy in 2013." -- Claudia Clark

Zella add a quote by KGE Konkel

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:07:05 -0800

"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, and so capriciously favored by the sinister flying squads of the NKVD. Ironically, the arrest when it came did not shock Batya. He had prepared for it." -- KGE Konkel

Zella add a quote by S.W. Clemens

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:09:58 -0800

"Each day a whole world passes away, largely unappreciated, numbly relegated to obligation, commerce and routine. One day seems as unremarkable as the next. It's only through the inexorable accretion of days, weeks, months and years, that we come to appreciate with heartbreaking clarity how incredibly unique and precious each lost day has been." -- S.W. Clemens

Zella add a quote by Gabriel F.W. Koch

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:10:46 -0800

"A look of absolute terror locked onto her features." -- Gabriel F.W. Koch

Zella add a quote by Colin Phelan

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:12:25 -0800

"Despite the business and auto-rickshaws and bantering Bengalis just beyond his brown front door, Sanjit cultivates a distinct learning environment and energy, one created and galvanized above the tile floors, within the thin walls, below the imperative ceiling fans, and embraced by books." -- Colin Phelan

Zella add a quote by Tom Baldwin

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:13:20 -0800

"Fine architecture is man’s tribute to the land it has been built on. So are the untouched, pristine lands he preserves for posterity." -- Tom Baldwin

Zella add a quote by Kyle Keyes

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:14:19 -0800

"You're not a Quaker, Jeremy. I happen to know you put beer on your cornflakes." -- Kyle Keyes

Zella add a quote by Charles Dowding

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:16:42 -0800

"It’s incredible to reflect on how much knowledge and growth power is contained in seeds." -- Charles Dowding

Zella add a quote by Harvey Havel

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:17:35 -0800

"He wasn’t sure if his parents would be proud that their child had served his country or not. There had always been something unnatural about parents burying their children." -- Harvey Havel

Zella add a quote by Margaret Atwood

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:18:35 -0800

"I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin." -- Margaret Atwood

Zella add a quote by Steven D. Levitt

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:19:29 -0800

"But fear best thrives in the present tense. That is why experts rely on it; in a world that is increasingly impatient with long-term processes, fear is a potent short-term play. Imagine that you are a government official charged with procuring the funds to fight one of two proven killers: terrorist attacks and heart disease. Which cause do you think the members of Congress will open up the coffers for? The likelihood of any given person being killed in a terrorist attack is far smaller than the likelihood that the same person will clog up his arteries with fatty food and die of heart disease. But a terrorist attack happens now; death by heart disease is some distant, quiet catastrophe. Terrorist acts lie beyond our control; french fries do not. Just as important as the control factor is what Peter Sandman calls the dread factor. Death by terrorist attack (or mad-cow disease) is considered wholly dreadful; death by heart disease is, for some reason, not." -- Steven D. Levitt

Zella add a quote by Nancy E. Turner

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:20:42 -0800

"I told Mama and Savannah about Ruben's proposal. That got us to talking about marriage and we laughed and cried some, and missed Papa, and it felt good to belong to each other. I don't feel as lonely today as I have in months. At least I know there are other women around me. " -- Nancy E. Turner

Zella add a quote by Joseph Campbell

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:21:23 -0800

"If you travel far enough, you'll eventually meet yourself." -- Joseph Campbell

Zella add a quote by Katherine Paterson

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:22:08 -0800

"This story is about John, who was a private in the 2nd Georgia Battalion Infantry. I had always been told that John had taken part in Pickett’s Charge, the bloody assault on Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863. Actually he was mortally wounded very close to Cemetery Hill on July 2 the day before that tragic charge." -- Katherine Paterson

Zella add a quote by Sue Monk Kidd

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:22:52 -0800

"It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey." -- Sue Monk Kidd

Zella add a quote by Barbara Sontheimer

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:16:50 -0700

"Nearing the Riefler's big red brick house he could see the yellow light spill out on the galerie Yvonne had insisted her German husband wrap around the house. There was a tightening in Victor's chest. It happened to him whenever he got close to the Riefler's house, or church on Sunday- anytime he thought he might catch a glimpse of Celena." -- Barbara Sontheimer

Zella add a quote by Sara Pascoe

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:17:26 -0700

"I feel homesick but I don’t know where for." -- Sara Pascoe

Zella add a quote by Yvonne Korshak

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:18:00 -0700

"It had happened. Thucydides, his archrival, was a general. Glaucon, from his own tribe, was a general. And Pericles was no longer a general. He was just a citizen with one vote. And an idea" -- Yvonne Korshak

Zella add a quote by K. Ritz

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:18:33 -0700

"This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it." -- K. Ritz

Zella add a quote by Max Nowaz

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:19:08 -0700

"Ah! You speak Levitan,” the man smiled. “But you’re not from Levita I think.” Like most Levitians he was a good looking man, if perhaps a bit effete for Brown’s tastes.  “No, I lived there for a while.”  “Did you enjoy your stay?” “Up to a point. The Levitian women are very beautiful.” “Yes of course. So are the men in Levita,” the man smiled. “We used to have a cleansing programme to ensure a healthy population.” “You mean a culling policy, where you killed all the weakest members of the population." -- Max Nowaz

Zella add a quote by Merlin Franco

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:19:42 -0700

"One would assume that travelers to Bali, the heaven on earth, would cry for joy. But in reality, every traveler is grieving some loss or another." -- Merlin Franco

Zella add a quote by Ken Kesey

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:20:15 -0700

"To hell with facts! We need stories!" -- Ken Kesey

Zella add a quote by Astrid Lindgren

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:20:47 -0700

"Красив съм аз и умен, и сръчен съм, и силен! Обичам да играя… И да си хапвам зная." -- Astrid Lindgren

Zella add a quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:21:22 -0700

"When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]" -- Jorge Luis Borges

Zella add a quote by Gregory Maguire

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:21:52 -0700

"I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can." -- Gregory Maguire

Zella add a quote by Robert Penn Warren

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:22:28 -0700

"Maybe you can’t ever really walk away from the things you want most to walk away from." -- Robert Penn Warren

Zella add a quote by Robert Jordan

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:23:30 -0700

"No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light." -- Robert Jordan

Zella add a quote by Maya Angelou

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:24:59 -0700

"If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide." -- Maya Angelou

Zella add a quote by Bret Easton Ellis

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:25:48 -0700

"What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest. 'What do you do?' 'What do you do?' she asks, her voice shaking. 'Don't ask me, please. Okay, Clay?' 'Why not?' She sits on the mattress after I get up. Muriel screams. 'Because... I don't know,' she sighs. I look at her and don't feel anything and walk out with my vest." -- Bret Easton Ellis

Zella add a quote by Eve Ensler

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:26:53 -0700

"Stop shoving things up me. Stop shoving and stop cleaning it up. My vagina doesn't need to be cleaned up. It smells good already. Not like rose petals. Don't try to decorate." -- Eve Ensler