Bisikletin Icadi Quotes & Sayings

Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be! — William Morris Hunt

The world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen. — Ian McEwan

Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms — Leonard Cohen

Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience ... In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them. — Kristin Hannah

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. — Jean Genet

I was trying to find ways of not being pigeon-holed like that. I didn't want to be tied down by my accent. I wanted to play Americans. I don't want to ever be doing the same thing twice, and I just didn't want to repeat myself. — Carey Mulligan

a scholarship somewhere huge, and then a few years from now you'll get an academic scholarship to the same school and you can study medicine just like you always wanted to do." Then I would jump in, my voice brimming with excitement. "And then you'll get drafted to the NBA and I'll become a doctor and our life will be fantastic." "We — Angela Jackson-Brown

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity. — Karin Slaughter

The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent. — Polixeni Papapetrou

In Sri Lanka, the people you lived amongst, the people you went to school with, the people in whose houses you ate, whose jokes you shared: these were not the people you married. Quite possibly they were not your religion. More to the point they were probably not your caste. This word with its fearsome connotations was never, hardly ever used. But it was ever present: it muddied the waters of Sri Lanka's politics, it perfumed the air of her bed-chambers; it lurked, like a particularly noxious relative, behind the poruwa of every wedding ceremony. It was the c-word. People used its synonym, its acronym, its antonym-indeed any other nym that came to mind - in the vain hope its meaning would somehow go away. It didn't. But if the people you chose to associate with were the very ones you could not marry, then the ones you did marry were quite often people you wouldn't dream of associating with if you had any choice in the matter. — Ashok Ferrey