Artmaker Quotes & Sayings

Valek leaned back in his chair and said to me, "I don't think I would have made it past the audition,Yelena. I probably would have set my hair on fire by this point."
"What's a singed head for the sake of art?" I teased. He laughed. — Maria V. Snyder

If we don't have the right words in our vocabularies, we can't even see the things that are right in front of our faces. — Paolo Bacigalupi

There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience ... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous. — Vanna White

He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves. — Terry Pratchett

This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world. Thank you. Good night, and God bless America. — George W. Bush

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone. — E. M. Forster

You look like a little girl when you sleep," he murmured. "It makes me want to guard you every minute. — Lisa Kleypas

It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing. — Paul Kane

I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral. — Andrew Gurland

I just love the subversion of dialogue in sitcoms, stand-up is monologue and that is entertaining for a lot of people but personally I find it a bit trying, which is a weird thing to say as a stand-up! I love people aping normal conversation and twisting it so it becomes hilarious. — Doc Brown

We aint a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that. — Justin Halpern

I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It's very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way. — Karl Ove Knausgard

I bunch his hair between my fingers and tug his head up. "Get on your back." "Not done with you," he mumbles. "Trust me." His eyes gleam as he shifts onto his side. Then he grins and rolls over, propping his hands behind his head and awaiting my next move. The ache between my legs is unbearable, making it difficult to move. I order my shaky limbs to cooperate, and climb onto his muscular body, twisting around so that my butt is wiggling in his face and his massive erection is at eye level with me. "Fuck," he gasps. "Yeah, babe, that's what I like to see. — Sarina Bowen