The Conch Losing Power Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was clear then, so painfully clear, that people fell in love to find something in themselves that they'd had all along. — Catherine Lacey

There's a saying in the movie industry that if your movie is about what you actually think it's about, you're in big trouble. I think it's the same with books. — Nick Harkaway

Trying to act cold is a challenge when your makeup's running and sweat is pouring down your neck. — Linus Roache

Why we should believe in wolf children seems somehow easier to understand than the ways we distinguish between what is human and what is animal behavior. In making such distinctions we run the risk of fooling ourselves completely. We assume that the animal is entirely comprehensible and, as Henry Beston has said, has taken form on a plane beneath the one we occupy. It seems to me that this is a sure way to miss the animal and to see, instead, only another reflection of our own ideas. — Barry Lopez

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book. — Libba Bray

I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts. — Harry S. Truman

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings. — George Herbert

We're excited to be appearing in Tel Aviv in the framework of the Pic.nic festival. This is an important tour for us and we're glad that Israel is part of it — Julio Iglesias

This was like National Lampoon's Vacation, but with death, property destruction, and an Irish accent. — Abigail Roux

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye. — Henry Ward Beecher

If you're worried I'll bite, I promise to tell you first. — Lisa Renee Jones

Says to ordinary people like me and you that instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead. — Bob Goff