Black Patsy Quotes & Sayings

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress. — Ludwig Bemelmans

Her careless beauty so huge it had to walk a few paces ahead of her, announcing itself. — Jandy Nelson

JENNET:
They also say that I bring back the past;
For instance Helen comes
Brushing the maggots from her eyes,
And, clearing here throat of the dust of several thousand years
She says "I loved ... "; but cannot any longer
Remember names. Sad Helen. Or Alexander, wearing
His imperial cobwebs and breastplate of shining worms
Wakens and looks for his glasses, to find the empire
Which he knows he put beside his bed. — Christopher Fry

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself. — Arthur Golden

We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Their faces were wholly burned, their eyesockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks. — John Hersey

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise! — Aesop

Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story, I'm completely immersed in that world and in the lives of those characters; they're utterly real to me. Then, when I've completed the story, it all just falls away. The whole compulsion to understand is over. — Carol Windley

Let's build a town where — F Scott Fitzgerald

In the heart of every writer there lies a murderer.
Writers spend their lives struggling to conceal this murderous desire from other mortals.
Like God, they ruthlessly destroy the people of their own creation, drag them from one cruelty to another, meting out punishment, and with the callous indifference of a serial killer. And no one knows when he has taken a life from the solitude of his room. But when a writer is enraged the walls of his refuge come crumbling down, revealing his true identity. — Ahmet Altan

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward. — Roberto Calasso

To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees. — Catherine Doherty

All I've done is work ... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since. — Jeremy Piven