Leaving this changeling for George, she washed his ripe fruit, and bit and broke the skin. An intense tang, the underside of velvet. Then flesh dissolved in a rush of nectar. Juice drenched her hand and wet the inside of her wrist. She had forgotten, if she'd ever know, that what was sweet could also be so complicated, that fruit could have a nap, like fabric, soft one way, sleek the other.
Allegra Goodman
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES His agony somehow became an invisible hand, stretching out through the Force, a hand that found her,... MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly f... ISABEL ALLENDE It broke his heart because she started to consider that her home. But on the other hand he knew she ... ELEANOR POPPELL She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her... AYN RAND It took her three seconds-one, two, three-to know that her destiny required her to join this man, an... JAMES A. MICHENER No one could see her objectively anyway. Even those who saw her for the first time, before she had o... ANN PATCHETT Kestrel's cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: th... MARIE RUTKOSKI He knelt down beside her and slowly rubbed a soft, muculent mix on her bare skin like a sculptor at ... MIRETTE BAGHAT The forest smelled fresh here and the ground was soft, carpeted by leaves and fallen pine needles. I... CAILEE FRANCIS I couldn't tell what colour her eyes were. They were wet and dark and shining, like pools of deep, s... GLENDA MILLARD Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, ... PHILIP PULLMAN She watched as he settled down on the bed with Naya skin to skin on his chest. His hand all but cove... NALINI SINGH Annie, who up until this very day had always felt like a child--which is why she could not marry, sh... ELIZABETH STROUT She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand. STIEG LARSSON His body was urgent against her, and she didn't have the heart anymore to fight...She saw his eyes, ... D.H. LAWRENCE If she needs a nap, I could just hang out and wait for her to wake up right? I could like down near ... CHRISTINA LAUREN And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautif... NATSUO KIRINO Andi was forbidden fruit, and even if she wasn't, there was no way a pure country bumpkin like her c... KIRSTY DALLAS She was so badly hurt, that the one spot where the dog had chewed her was like 10-12 inches and so b... ANITA WALKER I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sigh... PATRICK ROTHFUSS And she knows then that she was right about her brother, that it takes an unbelievable strength to f... JULIA HOBAN His hand moved to cup her cheek, his palm warm against her cold skin, and she found that her own fea... CASSANDRA CLARE He cupped his hand around her cheek, and she marveled at how perfectly his palm fit her cheek. His f... SUMMER HINES He’d never forgotten the sweep of her soft mouth against his, the taste of her sweetness, like str... KATHERINE MCINTYRE When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Her pinkie took matters into its own, er, pinkie, and moved oh-so-slightly, grazing his skin. His pi... ANGELA QUARLES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved t... PATRICK ROTHFUSS If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloy... EVELYN WAUGH Could a flavor be pleased with itself and its position in the world? That was plum. Not the sharp-fl... JUDITH M. FERTIG The strange thing; her face, after she hit me. She was in greater pain than I. You could see it in h... JODI PICOULT Her hand accidentally brushed up against his chest. She froze. His breathing remained steady and reg... CATE CAMPBELL BEATTY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;
Earth felt the w... JOHN MILTON She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing... IAN MCEWAN Her own awareness had risen like the dawn on her back.Like a leaden sunrise veiled in a swirl of sto... RENEE AHDIEH In the pause that followed, Shane understood why people said their hearts broke. She always thought ... THOMM QUACKENBUSH Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could... STEVAN V. NIKOLIC She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hade... HOLLY BLACK Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a... JANE AUSTEN She raised her head and saw a squadron of fighter planes. She stretched her hand high as if she coul... SARAH SUNDIN Here, her hand in mine was the one reality that severed us from the cold click-clack of Hell. I rubb... STEVEN L. PECK How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for w... ELIZABETH GASKELL Weetzie could not even cry and make Kleenex roses. She remembered the day her father, Charlie, had d... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was s... JOHN GREEN So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some... J.K. ROWLING Elayne could not help herself. Nynaeve wielding her tongue like a needle, Cerandin stubborn as two m... ROBERT JORDAN The doctor told her she could keep coaching if she could tone it down on the sidelines. Anyone her k... KYLEE KEROHER She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if the... MEGAN WHALEN TURNER She remembered how her heart, so tight, like a scroll, had opened when Arin kissed her. It had... MARIE RUTKOSKI But it was a happy and beautiful bride who came down the old, homespun- carpeted stairs that Se... L.M. MONTGOMERY She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was no... TONI MORRISON It is God who lets the wild apples grow, to satisfy the hungry. He showed her a wild apple-tree, wit... HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Miriam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any ... KHALED HOSSEINI She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. ... JODI PICOULT His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y... CAROLYN JEWEL Drink." she whispered, drawing nearer. "Drink." she held the soft, tender flesh of the wrist towards... ANNE RICE But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. .... PETER CAREY She couldn’t walk away from him again. Her heart couldn’t take it and she didn’t think his cou... KATIE REUS And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her prof... PHILIP K. DICK Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of ... GREGORY MAGUIRE An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as h... NICHOLAS SPARKS Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her ... HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN His face was glistening with cold. He was beautiful, the snow in his eyelashes like diamonds, the co... SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT Now now,” he said, setting his hand on her shoulder. He didn’t even see her turn. One moment she... MATT TOMERLIN I can’t judge how beauty looks anymore,” he said. “But I know the sound of it. It sounds like ... TESSA DARE Her hands warming on tea looked like chunks of knitting a child had felted in grubby palms. Enough d... LAUREN GROFF Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed... ELIZABETH STROUT Whatever shred of hope he'd had for a future with her was gone. She still felt something for him, sh... SARAH J. MAAS George stared at the dove. What would she say if she could speak to him? What would she wish for, fo... METTE IVIE HARRISON You're not moving your body the correct way, Here, just let me show you." Though it was the old... SARAH J. MAAS She was an incredible basketball player, but her truest gifts were her personality and love for the ... JOAN BONVICINI Slowly his resistance ebbed. She felt the change in his body, the relaxing of tension, his shoulders... LISA KLEYPAS But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view... AYN RAND And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much... EMILY MAGUIRE She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job li... PHILIP PULLMAN . . . but it was their relation, and his coming to her like that, openly, so that anyone could see, ... VIRGINIA WOOLF I love you," he said. She looked up at him, her eyes shiny and black, then looked away. "... RAINBOW ROWELL Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not... KURT VONNEGUT Sweat dripped down his chest. She never thought she could envy a piece of fabric, until she saw the ... JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN You can close your eyes and think of England, if you like." "I've never even been to England," ... CASSANDRA CLARE Morfyd’s care. As she walked out of the cave she passed Annwyl walking in. The girl had her s... G.A. AIKEN She wished he could make her somehow indelibly his; that they were still children so they could cut ... MEREDITH DURAN She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed t... J.K. ROWLING Her gaze dropped to the right side of his mouth, to the corner of his lip that was permanently pulle... ELIZABETH HOYT She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the... THOMAS HARDY That was Emma—she'd have enjoyed knowing she had something like that, something that could blow he... J.P. DELANEY And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story whi... C.S. LEWIS Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER There was a moment during this time, when his face was on hers, cheek on cheek, brow on brow, heavy ... A.S. BYATT She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h... CASSANDRA CLARE The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring... ARUNDHATI ROY Sans clothing, Owen climbed over her and settled into the middle of the mattress. Like he was a magn... LAURA KAYE She fastens her other hand securely on my wrist, and moves so that she's behind me. Good job, angel.... KATIE MCGARRY She smiled and he abruptly looked away. Was it really necessary for her to smile? It was bad enough ... JACQUELINE FRANCIS - THE JOURNAL She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was li... J.M. BARRIE Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strang... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She was dry. She was lying on something soft. She was wrapped in quilts. There was a star of light d... ERIN BOW
More Allegra Goodman
At first she felt overwhelmed by the house, its airy symmetry its silence. Now she was accustomed to... ALLEGRA GOODMAN Giddy with each other and the wine, they strolled outside through the Presidio, the old fort now hou... ALLEGRA GOODMAN The woods are lovely, dark, and deep," Jess intoned as they took the path down from the parking lot.... ALLEGRA GOODMAN She had no idea how George delighted in her funny ways, or watched her through the window as she sto... ALLEGRA GOODMAN I prefer feeling insignificant," said Jess. "I don't believe that." "I didn't say worthle... ALLEGRA GOODMAN A peach, slightly unbalanced, so that it listed to one side, its hue the color of an early sunrise. ... ALLEGRA GOODMAN To make a tarte of strawberyes," wrote Margaret Parker in 1551, "take and strayne theym with the yol... ALLEGRA GOODMAN Who are you? She asked silently, as she laid away the collector's quotations, his drawings, his scra... ALLEGRA GOODMAN Jess gazed at the apples arranged in all their colors: russet, blushing pink, freckled gold. She cas... ALLEGRA GOODMAN She was surprised because she was Emily, and she did not share Jonathan's frank assessment of cowork... ALLEGRA GOODMAN She knew she was overextended, but she couldn't help herself. Student, tree lover, citizen of the Ea... ALLEGRA GOODMAN Yorick's Used and Rare Books had a small storefront on Channing but a deep interior shaded by tall b... ALLEGRA GOODMAN His fantasies were nurturing, not predatory. If he could have Jess, he would feed her. Laughable, an... ALLEGRA GOODMAN I did think about a Ph.D. in computer science, but this is a time in industry where theory and pract... ALLEGRA GOODMAN Orion was the one Emily knew well. He had been Emily's childhood friend when, for several summers, t... ALLEGRA GOODMAN You're a throwback." "To what?" Jess considered this. Hi-tech at work, Emily was paradoxic... ALLEGRA GOODMAN The sisters' voices were almost identical, laughing mezzos tuned in childhood to the same pitch and ... ALLEGRA GOODMAN Sandra turned to the page with the title "Toklas' Hashich Fudge." The original hashish brownies... ALLEGRA GOODMAN The wines were great, and better by the minute, even as the drinkers softened. Just as wines opened ... ALLEGRA GOODMAN Richard had sold Gillian's piano. He'd offered to ship it out to California, but neither Jess nor Em... ALLEGRA GOODMAN When I first enjoyed this superb view, one glowing April day," Jess read aloud, "from the summit of ... ALLEGRA GOODMAN Noah. “I have ALLEGRA GOODMAN She turned the next several pages and found a black-ink drawing on a slip of typing paper, a nude wo... ALLEGRA GOODMAN She had never seen the Tree House at night. Vast and dark, lit with candles for the occasion, the ro... ALLEGRA GOODMAN There were three wedding cakes, curious and historical but tasty, each labeled with a calligraphed c... ALLEGRA GOODMAN Once he left the Haywood out for her with a page number on a scrap of paper, and she opened the book... ALLEGRA GOODMAN I used to write poetry when I was younger," Jess said. She had kept a notebook by her bed, in case s... ALLEGRA GOODMAN She herself vacillated when it came to belief. She did not particularly believe in God. Or, rather, ... ALLEGRA GOODMAN The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone tol... ALLEGRA GOODMAN We've got an acquisitive gene. We want and want, and there's no way around it. ALLEGRA GOODMAN Though experience should be our guide . . . and we see mistakes are common at the age of twenty-thre... ALLEGRA GOODMAN People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that... ALLEGRA GOODMAN How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing t... ALLEGRA GOODMAN He draws asparagus and cabbages, but he's obsessed with artichokes. He draws them more than any othe... ALLEGRA GOODMAN You think there's something materialistic about collecting books, but really collectors are the last... ALLEGRA GOODMAN Sentimentally, he thought of Jess. Irrationally, he despaired of having her. But this was not a ques... ALLEGRA GOODMAN All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power. ALLEGRA KENT Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with i... ALLEGRA HUSTON I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I w... ALLEGRA HUSTON This was probably the closest thing to a 'Day After Tomorrow' scenario that we could model. The floo... ALLEGRA LEGRANDE Goals are for realists, but dreams are for optimists. ALLEGRA SHORES There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life ... ELLEN GOODMAN The strike is the first by Iberia's pilot's since it was privatized and the company says the present... AL GOODMAN There were few people lining up at Iberia check-in counters Tuesday morning, where they would normal... AL GOODMAN Even if this spill doesn't get any worse, the damage from it -- and that's of course not sure -- a l... AL GOODMAN The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out agai... AL GOODMAN It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only y... PAUL GOODMAN I am good in bed - I don't snore. I don't take the duvet. I just lay there and go straight o... LEN GOODMAN Humor is a universal lanuage. JOEL GOODMAN One of the benefits of creating a great work environment is its effect on retaining highly valued wo... ADAM GOODMAN It wasn't too hard. Any time you're paying attention to what you're putting in your mouth, you're go... ADAM GOODMAN There's a misconception about which foods are bad for you, but really it depends on what your object... ADAM GOODMAN The Island' was a gigantic disappointment. ADAM GOODMAN The economics are evolving in the movie business. Everybody has to recognize that. ADAM GOODMAN People are choosing performance over partisanship. ADAM GOODMAN I don't care how the Republicans spin it, ... it's not good. ADAM GOODMAN We feel very good that the poll continues to show Nelson well under 50 percent, ADAM GOODMAN We grow up with certain icons and certain entertainment ... and being able to share it with someone ... ADAM GOODMAN The campaign is all about taking the Katherine Harris story to over 90 percent of the Florida public... ADAM GOODMAN We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with eac... ELLEN GOODMAN It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your ... PAUL GOODMAN Few great men could pass personal. PAUL GOODMAN For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content ... PAUL GOODMAN When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one beco... PAUL GOODMAN I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to ... ELLEN GOODMAN There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off ... PAUL GOODMAN To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or... PAUL GOODMAN What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time . The wonderful luxury of being at r... ELLEN GOODMAN There ELLEN GOODMAN I keep reading between the lies. GOODMAN ACE The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else s... GOODMAN ACE The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empi... LINDA GOODMAN Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the su... PAUL GOODMAN Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ELLEN GOODMAN Her parthenogenetic birth from Adam's body makes Eve his daughter so that the Judeo-Christian tradit... NAOMI GOODMAN The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. ELLEN GOODMAN Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that yo... ELLEN GOODMAN But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when h... JOHN GOODMAN Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. PAUL GOODMAN A people must have dignity and identity. ANDREW GOODMAN I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shou... LEN GOODMAN When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four m... ELLEN GOODMAN We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected ... ELLEN GOODMAN To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you fe... BENNY GOODMAN Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as fail... BENNY GOODMAN Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage. BENNY GOODMAN One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The ob... BENNY GOODMAN I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How... BENNY GOODMAN As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my lif... BENNY GOODMAN After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go ... BENNY GOODMAN If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice. BENNY GOODMAN I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very m... BENNY GOODMAN Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it. ANDREW GOODMAN The source and cause of this need for reaction can be attributed to white contempt and neglect. The ... ANDREW GOODMAN The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Mus... ANDREW GOODMAN It is true that the white man (and by this I mean Christian civilization in general) has proved hims... ANDREW GOODMAN That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a li... BENNY GOODMAN We continued to improve each week. We have had a lot of great individual performances recently and I... ANGELA GOODMAN Each week has been one step in preparation for Big Ten Championships, and this is our opportunity to... ANGELA GOODMAN This weekend we'll bring the full team, and I expect everyone to be competitive. The meet features a... ANGELA GOODMAN This will be a really good chance to see where we stand at this point in the season. All of the stat... ANGELA GOODMAN We had a good opener last week, and this weekend will be a continuation of that. I think the girls a... ANGELA GOODMAN This is an important meet for us. We are sending a full team, and it's the last competition before t... ANGELA GOODMAN Voices of Our Time. AMY GOODMAN I really do think that if for one week in the U.S. we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limb... AMY GOODMAN The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them... AMY GOODMAN I loved what she said about Cindy Sheehan. ... I think it's important that she exposed the oil compa... AMY GOODMAN [The president has been on vacation] almost a year now, ... but Sheehan says she can never enjoy ano... AMY GOODMAN Beware of mothers who have nothing left to lose. AMY GOODMAN War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing a... AMY GOODMAN We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs. AMY GOODMAN The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to ... AMY GOODMAN Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists... AMY GOODMAN I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboa... ELLEN GOODMAN There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life ... ELLEN GOODMAN I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but ... ALISON GOODMAN Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in. ELLEN GOODMAN TV is the best babysitter. JOHN GOODMAN The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating. ANDREW GOODMAN Politics makes estranged bedfellows. GOODMAN ACE There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumsta... ALISON GOODMAN I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change t... ELLEN GOODMAN On the dance floor, as much as you say, 'Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only... LEN GOODMAN This is just the first step of the second season. BRIAN GOODMAN It was a big win for us over a county rival. We were hitting the ball much better today. BRIAN GOODMAN Over the last 10 years, there has been more awareness that ADHD is a lifelong disorder. BRIAN GOODMAN It was a good win for us. Anthony pitched well for us to start the game and our bats were good. When... BRIAN GOODMAN We came ready to play because we wanted to finally get a chance to play someone other than ourselves... BRIAN GOODMAN We expected to hit the ball well but we were better on the long ball tonight. BRIAN GOODMAN When you hit that many long balls, you'll likely win a lot of your games. We need to cut down on our... BRIAN GOODMAN Jesus brings light into darkness and life into a world that is filled with death and destruction. BRIAN GOODMAN It takes time to build. We want to take the time to build what we're doing right. BRIAN GOODMAN While (Hurricane Katrina) is more devastating that 9/11 and (brought) far wider destruction and disl... BRIAN GOODMAN It should be crystal clear skies. BILL GOODMAN In reality, it reflects an attempt by the Bush administration to exercise unchecked power without th... BILL GOODMAN The judge adhered to the basic democratic principles built into the Freedom of Information Act, ... ... BILL GOODMAN Normally that's not a big deal. But all the trees still have leaves on them and the soil is very sat... BILL GOODMAN There was flooding in some various streams, but just toward the western half of the state. I don't s... BILL GOODMAN This is information that should have been released a long time ago, and it's a scandal that it hasn'... BILL GOODMAN We had a cold front blast through this afternoon, bringing some gusty winds - 50 mph at LaGuardia Ai... BILL GOODMAN The more they practiced, the more consistent they got. My two seniors have really stepped up. BILL GOODMAN No one up the chain of command has ever been held accountable for what is in these horrifying images... BILL GOODMAN There are still vast numbers of documents that are concealed and hidden and declared to be secret an... BILL GOODMAN There's an opportunity in mobile communications and wireless to create radios that can run at very h... BOB GOODMAN This is a normal, cyclical slowdown in growth, engineered by the Fed. That's what the Fed told us th... BOB GOODMAN This is a normal, cyclical slowdown in growth, engineered by the Fed, ... That's what the Fed told u... BOB GOODMAN Assuming theres insurance, there would be no reason not to carry on, ... This just pushes us back on... BOB GOODMAN Things were terrible then and, comparatively, were really having great times right now, ... The poin... BOB GOODMAN I think it's admirable, BOB GOODMAN Most of the speakers are good, some are excellent. Usually people get a chance to talk one-on-one wi... BOB GOODMAN There is no doubt that if you are a bass fisherman, you will learn a few tricks, BOB GOODMAN I think were seeing buyers sitting back and looking to see what happens over the next several months... BOB GOODMAN He definitely brings people out to see him. BRAD GOODMAN Coach has been talking about heart all week. We've been doing a lot of rebounding drills. We haven't... BRAD GOODMAN Yes it was. We needed it. We need one (today), too. BRAD GOODMAN We have the potential to beat anyone in the state, but we've got to play our game. We've got to brin... BRAD GOODMAN I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my bes... LEN GOODMAN Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating. GOODMAN ACE I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one. GOODMAN ACE I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you cant recall it, forg... GOODMAN ACE Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating GOODMAN ACE I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you canââ‚... GOODMAN ACE TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medi... GOODMAN ACE The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's GOODMAN ACE I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one GOODMAN ACE Humor prevents a "hardening of the attitudes." JOEL GOODMAN Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths diff... NELSON GOODMAN Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought com... JOHN GOODMAN It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only y... PAUL GOODMAN Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the s... PAUL GOODMAN The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling. WALTER GOODMAN You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you cant teach someone who writes columns to... ELLEN GOODMAN We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each... ELLEN GOODMAN Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are thos... ELLEN GOODMAN Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that... ELLEN GOODMAN In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. ELLEN GOODMAN All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with yo... ELLEN GOODMAN The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you ... PAUL GOODMAN Few great men could pass Personnel. PAUL GOODMAN Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. ROY GOODMAN Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are thos... ELLEN GOODMAN Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are th... ELLEN GOODMAN "God works in many ways His wonders to perform." But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived ov... PAUL GOODMAN In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect. PAUL GOODMAN It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have se... PAUL GOODMAN It rarely adds anything to say, ''In my opinion'' -not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only yo... PAUL GOODMAN When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it's not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ig... PAUL GOODMAN What we're saying to people is 'Look, we'll wipe that (Internet access) cost out for you, but make y... PAUL GOODMAN Desperate families have been waiting for government action on the CSA since its last chief executive... PAUL GOODMAN I am willing to completely challenge and face the legal threat. PAUL GOODMAN I am often involved in individual housing cases when constituents ask for my help. This chance to vi... PAUL GOODMAN This is one of the most difficult retail businesses to be successful at because with most businesses... PAUL GOODMAN You'll have to rent a shop, open a retail display area, buy the refrigerators and equipment and subs... PAUL GOODMAN They can do that because there are additional revenue streams available beyond the hardware. That ch... MICHAEL GOODMAN We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cr... ELLEN GOODMAN Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the... ELLEN GOODMAN Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman g... LEN GOODMAN Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them. JOHN GOODMAN I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really. LEN GOODMAN I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How... BENNY GOODMAN