Binchy Novelist Quotes & Sayings

Harry [Styles] is like a younger brother. We do exercises together then he asks me to prepare a sandwich for the effort. — Liam Payne

Something deep inside each one of us seeks to prove we are good enough--to our parents, our friends, ourselves, God. We do this because we know deep down that we aren't good enough, and the illusion of feeling like good people feels better than the reality of knowing we are not. — Chris Tomlinson

But who, in the Western world, has not been deranged by a toxic cocktail of dissatisfaction, restlessness, desire and resentment? Who has not yearned to be younger, richer, more talented, more respected, more celebrated, and, above all, more sexually attractive? Who has not felt entitled to more and aggrieved when more was not forthcoming? It is possible that a starving African farmer has less sense of injustice than a middle-aged Western male who has never been fellated. — Michael Foley

What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting mirror. This contrast seems to me a most appealing musical theme
to show love in its noble and crude forms, romanticism and crass realism mixed as in everyday life. — Stefan Zweig

I don't have a girlfriend. I just know a girl who would get really mad if she heard me say that. — Mitch Hedberg

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. — Gertrude Stein

Evil is the worst necessity for mankind to learn and earn better life. — Toba Beta

Focus your attention on the center of your forehead. Visualize that there is a slow but steady swirl of white light there. Visualize that the white light above your forehead is slowly moving in a clockwise direction. — Frederick Lenz

The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention. Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration. To forget this is to court despair. — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life. — Patti LuPone

Science fiction used to be a dangerous literature. Now, it is a very commercial genre, and whatever dangers might still lurk within seem to have been safely sanitized for the marketplace. The real crime is that the lobotomy has been self performed. I — Harlan Ellison