“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“It is odd that 'sword' and 'words' have the same letters and even more strange that they have the same effect.”
Brandi Keeler
“One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.”
Gloria Naylor
“Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year”
Victor Borge
“He's tough, ma'am, tough, is J. B. Tough and devilish sly!”
Charles Dickens
“Pump 4 with the red truck, you're ready to go, Ma'am, please come inside and pay when you're done pumping.”
Tim Sutton
“He was always pleasant and polite - 'Yes sir, yes ma'am' - but he had that short fuse, ... As he got older, he eventually came to the realization that even though he wasn't the one responsible for where he was (in trouble and in foster care), he was the one who was going to have to (rise above it).”
Rob Davis