Alksto Quotes & Sayings

You're everything. I can't even breathe without you. — Kahlen Aymes

I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families. — Tony Parsons

In my long career in this historical fiction business, though, I've found that the most effective storytelling concept is this: Once upon a time it was now.
That has become my credo and my method as a longtime historical novelist.
It's quite simple, if you see as Janus sees:
Today is now.
Yesterday was now.
Tomorrow will be now.
Three hundred years ago, the eighteenth century was now.
You, as a historical novelist, can make any time now by taking your reader into that time. Once you grasp that, the rest is just hard work.
Stay with me, and you'll see how such work is done. — James Alexander Thom

Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors. — Malcolm Gladwell

I'm a big Hilary Duff person! My family loves her. — Miley Cyrus

I'm white and I don't dance, but that doesn't mean I have all the answers. — Charles Portis

Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel. — PJ Harvey

If you're referring to the incident with the Dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door. — J.R.R. Tolkien

These hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us. — Louisa May Alcott

The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, the light of the world, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit the earth and the kingdom of heaven too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen will perish. — Eric Hoffer

There were several books on a shelf; one lay beside the tea things open, and Utterson was amazed to find it a copy of a pious work, for which Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand with startling blasphemies. Next, — Robert Louis Stevenson

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. — Paulo Coelho

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience. — Mark Wahlberg

What is impossible to see from the viewpoint of those who believe in cures is that the very symptoms the good doctors have suppressed and turned into chronic disease were the body's only means of correcting the problem! The so-called "disease" was the only "cure" possible! — Philip K. Chapman

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create. — Peter Mayhew