Ann Rice Quotes & Sayings

I don't want people to hate me. I basically do whatever I want. But one of the aspects of what I want is, I want people to like me! — Robert Pattinson

You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark. — Wallace Arnold

It was her last breakfast with Bapi, her last morning in Greece. In her frenetic bliss that kept her up till dawn, she'd scripted a whole conversation in Greek for her and Bapi to have as their grand finale of the summer. Now she looked at him contentedly munching on his Rice Krispies, waiting for the right juncture for launchtime.

He looked up at her briefly and smiled, and she realized something important. This was how they both liked it. Though most people felt bonded by conversation, Lena and Bapi were two of a kind who didn't. They bonded by the routine of just eating cereal together.

She promptly forgot her script and went back to her cereal.

At one point, when she was down to just milk, Bapi reached over and put his hand on hers. 'You're my girl,' he said.

And Lena knew she was. — Ann Brashares

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time — Ann Brashares

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations. — Alexander Borodin

If you think the hangover from tequila shots is bad, wait till you've had junkie blood. — Cyma Rizwaan Khan

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know. — Vince Gill

Fashion is a function of lifestyle, and style a function of quality, integrity and timelessness. — Ralph Lauren

To ensure prosperity here at home and peace abroad, we all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet. — Barack Obama

Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance. — Eckhart Tolle

Somebody's values and their morals are shown best in the way they treat others and their children, and the world in general. It's not necessarily the way that they respond sexually and emotionally to the person they choose to live with. — Rosie O'Donnell

After a few brief simple moments, he found her neck, kissing the nape as if it were a peach, grazing her skin barely, causing her to moan out a small tiny little whimper. Before she could take another rbreath, his lips met hers in rapture, and suddenly, she was lost within the tragic abyss of falling beneath a lovebinding spell. — Keira D. Skye

One recent menu for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo consisted of orange glazed chicken, fresh fruit crepe, steamed peas and mushrooms, and rice pilaf. Sounds like the sort of thing you'd get at Windows on the World - if it still existed. — Ann Coulter

The more broken you are, the more light gets through. — Jason Gray

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live. — Ray Brown

For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve. — Deborah Eisenberg