Avosdim Quotes & Sayings

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it. — Janet Evanovich

Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the words "pro patria." What do they mean anyway? — Edgar Lee Masters

Oh that's right, you never lie unless your mouth is open and words are coming out of it — Joshilyn Jackson

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world. — Paul Cezanne

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. — Samuel Johnson

I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves this session. — Gib Lewis

Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society ... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age. — Don Marquis

They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes. — Dan Quayle

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R. — Dan Farmer

I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away. — Edgar Mitchell

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there. — Oscar Wilde

I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted. — Martha Stewart