Aspirasi Kbbi Quotes & Sayings

The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously. For example, it has been brought to my attention that our ability to continue to pay the hordes of people employed by M&S (God knows how many mouths have to be fed) depends directly on the number of copies of your new book [Life Before Man] that we are able to sell between September and Christmas. In past I have been able to treat this whole thing as a fun game. I have never been troubled by the cavalier explanations about lost manuscripts and fuck-ups of various sorts. Now I have learned that this is a deadly serious game. I don't laugh at jokes about the Canadian postal service. I cry. (in a letter to author Margaret Atwood, dated February, 1979) — Jack McClelland

I do my very best to avoid shark fin. — Anthony Bourdain

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear. — David Crosby

My look is pretty low maintenance, I have a great team around me for hair and make-up, and they have also taught me some great tricks over the years for when I'm doing my own. — Alexa Chung

The meaning of your life depends on which ideas you permit to use you. Who you think you are determines where you put your attention. Where you direct your attention creates your life experiences, and brings a new course of events into being. Where you habitually put your attention is what you worship. What do you worship in this mindstream called your life? — Gangaji

Have I heard all the stories I need to hear?" she asked, stupidly. But he answered as if it were a good question.
"No, you haven't. But you don't have time to hear any more from me. So listen for stories wherever you go. It won't always be someone telling them; sometimes they come in other ways. And Summer, when you tell yourself stories, make them true. And make them surprising. That's how you will know they might be true. — Katherine Catmull

I'm a huge romantic comedy fan and have been in this business for 17 years and I think for all 17 I'd hoped and dreamed and wished to some day be in a romantic comedy myself. — Katherine Heigl

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings. — Muriel Spark

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists. — Mos Def

I just keep losing. I mean, some people just...are supposed to lose? For balance in the universe? I mean, like, are there just some people on earth who...are supposed to be here just to make it easier for the winners? — Donald Glover

You could see just a trace of the daughter there, the way she held her shoulders back, the length of her neck. It was a crime what time did to women. — Ann Patchett

These groups were: running enthusiasts, lifestyle managers, personal goal achievers, personal accomplishers, and competitive achievers. — Steve Magness

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal. — Hanna Rosin

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction. — Loretta Chase

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome. — Arthur Helps