Bonkbusters Quotes & Sayings

Those who can command themselves command others. — William Hazlitt

In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper. — Caitlin Moran

With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse. — John Rhys-Davies

The tougher the problem, the sweeter the victory — Sunday Adelaja

And sitting there against the wall, listening to Billy's inhalations and exhalations, and watching the light in the glass and through the glass, Cleve knew without doubt that even if he escaped this trap, it was only a temporary respite; that this long night, its minutes, its hours, were a foretaste of a longer vigil. He almost despaired then; felt his soul sink into a hole from which there seemed to be no hope of retrieval. Here was the real world; he wept. Not joy, not light, not looking forward; only this waiting in ignorance, without hope, even of fear, for fear came only to those with dreams to lose. — Clive Barker

My ears become my conduit to the world. In the darkness I listen - to thrillers, to detective novels, to romances; to family sagas, potboilers and historical novels; to ghost stories and classic fiction and chick lit; to bonkbusters and history books. I listen to good books and bad books, great books and terrible books; I do not discriminate. Steadily, hour after hour, in the darkness I consume them all. — Anna Lyndsey

Within all beings there is the seed of perfection. However, compassion is required in order to activate that seed which is inherent in our hearts and minds ... — Dalai Lama XIV

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become. — David Coverdale

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule? — Patricia Clarkson

Cynical? Me? I'll have you know that I make daisy-chains and frolic with unicorns on the weekends. — Bex-chan

We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were part of that era. — Brian Setzer

What the wise see eyes closed is greater than what the ignorant see both eyes open. — Matshona Dhliwayo

And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s (paintings from black-and-white photographs), with a compressed summation that precludes any possible continuation. And so it is a leave-taking from thoughts and feelings of my own on a very basic level. Not that this is a deliberate act, of course; it is a quasi-automatic sequence of disintegration and reformation which I can perceive, as always, only in retrospect. — Gerhard Richter

Because I'm seen on 'Oz', a lot of the urban cats in the city are like, 'Yo, I thought you'd be rolling in a Mercedes?' And I'm just like, 'Not at all!' This is cable money. There is a big difference between that and a network. But still I can't complain. It's better than doing a 9 to 5 any day. — Kirk Acevedo

A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused. — Melina Marchetta