Bobby Essex Quotes & Sayings

I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference. — Chester Himes

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists. — Dorothy Dunnett

He'd been convinced that if he could just explain his condition to the city, they would all listen to reason and let him control their lives perfectly. — Brandon Sanderson

The law of centrifugal force seems to be as true for the human condition as it is for the Newtonian mechanics. The faster our lives spin, the more things tend to fly apart. — Richard Paul Evans

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution. — Donald Rumsfeld

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies. — Robert B. Parker

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me. — Dorothy Allison

I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there. — Lee Majors

Notice the difference between being in control and needing control. — Marilyn Suttle

It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen. — Agnes Varda

You don't stop planting corn because weeds are going to grow beside it. — Matshona Dhliwayo