Bodley Head Quotes & Sayings

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. — Mary Kay Ash

'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history! — Alison Weir

If you ain't aim too high, then you aim too low! — J. Cole

I do loads of squats with weights. It's great for your bum and legs. — Fleur East

You get to decide what to worship. — David Foster Wallace

Love attracts, connects, builds and frees the beauty of humanity. Happy Valentines Day. — Euginia Herlihy

This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot. It occurs through a suspension of the time-sequence; a mystery is a pocket in time, and it occurs crudely, as in "Why did the queen die?" and more subtly in half-explained gestures and words, the true meaning of which only dawns pages ahead. Mystery is essential to plot, and cannot be appreciated without intelligence ... To appreciate a mystery, part of the mind must be left behind, brooding, while the other part goes marching on. — E. M. Forster

She smells the way a mermaid ought to smell. She smells of the sea. — George R R Martin

One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism. — Bruce Sterling

My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with ... That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now. — Bill Cosby

I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.' — Lev Grossman

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or praying or wailing of cajoling can halt it or stall it or call it back. — Nicola Barker

Do they LOVE you,
or the MASK you put on everyday? — Anonymous

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself. — Thomas Willis