Annoyingly Cheerful Quotes & Sayings

I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22 books, and they are all very different. I have tried all kinds of genres. — Isabel Allende

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors. — Marcel Proust

I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing. — Kip Winger

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up. — Miles Davis

I love that I can dream about paisley, and then two months later, someone's wearing it. I'm basically styling America. — Jessica Simpson

inspirational and instructive. — Skip Allums

Your enemies are not to be destroyed, grant them longevity to witness your success. — Michael Bassey Johnson

To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers. — LouAnne Johnson

If everything I did failed - which it doesn't, it actually succeeds - just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration. People are so scared to lose that they don't even try. Like, one thing people can't say is that I'm not trying, and not I'm not trying my hardest, and I'm not trying to do the best way I know how. — Kanye West

She'd been so busy worrying about soldier boys and villagers she'd forgotten the jungle had hunters of its own, and now she was going to die for it. — Paolo Bacigalupi

[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of one imminent researcher, that he had learned the language in which God recreated the universe. Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most devine and sacred gift. — William J. Clinton

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter. — John F. Kennedy