Beckenham Place Quotes & Sayings

He had a way of coaxing me to greater and greater heights, promising a burst of exhilaration as long as I could bear the fear. It felt like the definition of true love. And I didn't see how I could ever find it again. — Norman Ollestad

I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her. — V.C. Andrews

Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message — Alphonse Mucha

I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that's kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, I'm grateful for it. — Po Bronson

Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other. — Toni Morrison

Some of the best rock riffs ever written were by Jimmy Page, and I can't really name the songs, but some of the stuff he did on his first and second records is beyond brilliant. — Joe Perry

I don't do event dressing, because every day is an event. — Daphne Guinness

You teach others how to treat you by how you treat others. — Bryant McGill

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. — Richard Russo

Sure I've got an awesome overdraft but as a perk I've got someone personally assigned to look after me. When you spend £45,000 on doing up your house you don't have to speak to someone in a call centre. — Brian Robertson

The kings die so that their choice of the next Queen can be irrevocable, unassailable, and unprejudiced. — Alaya Dawn Johnson