Anisya Staroselsky Quotes & Sayings

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness — Jacqueline Carey

I like to chant a couple of lines of poetry into the ozone layer every day or so, another caller says. — Carol Shields

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable. — Nell Blaine

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor. — Heather Graham

as soon as we become accustomed to the silent presence of a thing, it gets broken or disappears. My ties to the people around me were also marked by those two modes of impermanence: breaking up or disappearing. — Valeria Luiselli

If a penny can bring luck and a dime can grant a wish, how come my eleven cents hasn't bought me what I need. — Kasie West

Lance rolled his eyes. "I'm already sorrier than you could possibly imagine. Now you promise me you won't interfere, or mention it to anyone, or poke your nose in, or follow Mr. Traynor along the street when he comes into town, ... "
Lily snorted. "As if I would tell anyone! You think I want it spread around that my son's into puppy play?"
Lance felt his temper supernova. Yes, that was really quite an interesting sensation, the way the cells inside his chest spontaneously burst into flame. "I AM NOT INTO PUPPY PLAY! AND HOW DO YOU EVEN KNOW THAT TERM?"
Lily waved her hand as if he was being silly. "Please. Like I was born fifty years old."
"I want to be stricken dead. Right now," Lance groaned and hid his face.
"Oh, all right. Fine! You're doing some reconnaissance in your dog form, and that's all it is, and it's none of my business, and I've always been a virgin. You and your brothers and sister were all conceived by supernatural means. Happy? — Eli Easton

When you become angry, you enter a tunnel, leaving the light behind you; when you get calm, you exit the tunnel, finding the light in front of you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I want to be different from anyone ever. — Chamique Holdsclaw

Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner. — Francis Crick

Pavel is not a doctor any more, Bruno' said Maria quietly. 'But he was. In another life. Before he came here — John Boyne

Very rarely will you listen to the radio in a judgmental way, the way you'll watch telly. — Clare Balding