"Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop committing massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare to do."

“At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.”

“If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.”

“She knew what he had in mind. He'll propose in Scotland on my birthday. There was no doubt as to what her answer would be.”

Source : Jana Oliver (2012). “Foretold: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.352, Macmillan

“Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.”

“If I have given my all and still do not win, I haven't lost. Others might remember winning or losing; I remember the journey.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 18, 2010

“I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.”

“All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.”

“As I get older, I just prefer to knit.”

Source : Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.newsweek.com. September 19, 2004.