"Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey."

-- Sloane Crosley

#Differences Quotes #Jersey Quotes #Curtains Quotes

“The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it if I didn't.”
“Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.”
“I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.”
“The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.160, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.”
“School kids don't know the world is a million times bigger than school's version of it.”
“Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world; I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.”

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