Avetis Archanian Quotes & Sayings

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes. — Theodore Sturgeon

A cartoon character isn't a specific person. It isn't Tom Cruise or George Clooney playing the part, it's a character that could be you. It's easier for you to get drawn into it in a special way. — Tomm Moore

I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me. — Elliott Colla

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones! — Richard Jeni

Of threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain - This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is — Omar Khayyam

I loved the smell of ocean water. Salt always smells like memory. — Sherman Alexie

But that was the hypocrisy of adulthood: You never wanted the children you cared about to do things you'd done when you were heedless of the fragility of life. — Lisa Unger

Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its law. — Plato

We the erratic keep terrible time. — Alexander Maksik

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves. — Mahatma Gandhi

This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me. — David Ignatius

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California. — Joan Didion

I started writing as soon as I started reading. — Michael Koryta

There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance. — Oscar Wilde

Your topsoil's a disaster area - it's starved for nitrogen, it's been fertilized for years by the criminally insane, and whatever thief put in your irrigation system ought to be flogged through the fleet. — Peter S. Beagle