Nod house turned into shout house. In the shout house memory said shut up. It said silence, misery said amen, the mule's head meant my stubborn lungs. . . I stood imagining I fell back dreaming, stuck tongue stuck in my jaw broke my jaw
In contrast to England, half of whose literature seems to revolve around houses and estates, houses and estates being ready extensions of character, America has always found more value in the act of leaving one house for something larger and ostensib...
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affor...
Poisons are more my thing
When you can't afford to have the best, you hire the young who are going to be the best.
Learn to invest in the best quality you can afford and wear pieces in different ways.
If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.
CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world.
We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.
I used to watch all my friends play with G.I. Joes. I couldn't afford them.
A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.
Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.
When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.
He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
You can't afford to live your life with regrets.
80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
