Ammalato Quotes & Sayings

Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together.
Richard: Not cuddling, huddling. There's a difference. — Linda Howard

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down? — Mark Steyn

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education. — Blaise Pascal

Considering retirement? When that happens, I don't want that to be the story of whatever the season it is. I don't want to have to be talking about it all the time. My plan is when the time is up, it'll be time to hang it up. When that comes, it'll come. But right now, I don't have any clue as to when that'll be. It's been that way the last couple of years ... I've often felt if I ever get to a point where I don't want to go recruiting and can't get excited about it, then maybe it's time. That's a pretty good indication that's probably it. And I haven't reached that point at all yet. — LaVell Edwards

I had four brothers, no sisters, and shared a tiny bedroom with my maiden aunt for the first seventeen years of my life. I had no choice but to write. — Margaret Hermes

Besides, she was alone and those who drink alone, she decided, had no need of any impediments to the pure act of consumption. — Alan Goodare

In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Before he could bring his lips together, his teeth fell, no, actually his teeth jumped, out of his mouth. — Maya Angelou

They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan. — Barry Sheene

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area. — Neil Gaiman

In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.' It's an aggressive, even a hostile act. — Joan Didion

Even very great things, he meant, can't last forever. Or beautiful things, I suppose. Those too. Things that don't really need replacing except because they fall apart. — Emma Richler

I always saw myself as a big-nosed, big-eared kid. I've never tried to kind of capitalize on that stuff. I think a lot of people do when they can. — Benn Northover

A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper. — Kate Grenville