4455 Quotes & Sayings

more. Lee had done this so many times that he could have closed his eyes and his fingers would carry on, manipulating his tools of felony with enviable precision. Lee had already — David Baldacci

If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that's a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace. — Joss Whedon

He has a frightening aversion to text messaging in general.
"It's a phone. It's for making calls, not for writing novels". — Patrick Carman

I shall never have a bath again," I said.
"Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever. — Roald Dahl

I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land. — Anne Waldman

I pat her on the head. "Oh, naive little Kitten. Dear, foolish girl. This cookie is worth all this and more. Sit or you will not partake. — Jenny Han

If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist ... — Stephen Hawking

[I am a humble adherent of] ... Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism. — Ernest Gellner

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before. — Anthony Horowitz

Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion. — Walter Lippmann

Ours was a ragged and uneven parting. Each of us had intended to see the other again. Each of us had had final words to say. My days with the Fool ended like a half-played game of Stones, the outcome poised and uncertain, possibilities hovering. Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered. It is like the anticipation that a clever minstrel evokes when he pauses, letting silence pool before sweeping into the final refrain of his song. Sometimes a gap can seem like a promise yet to be fulfilled. — Robin Hobb

P14 - People educate each other through the mediation of the world — Paulo Freire

Social issues, reclusiveness, combined with regular vivid nightmares, and imagination are why I write. — Chris Mentillo

Love and work ... work and love, that's all there is. — Sigmund Freud

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really. — Scott Thompson