Bookedin Quotes & Sayings

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood. — Matthew Collings

When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my
first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the
subject. — Winston Churchill

Books for the general reader are always ill-smelling books, the odour of paltry people clings to them. Where the populace eat and drink, and even where they reverence, it is accustomed to stink. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There was nothing, nothing, that compared to that moment. — N.R. Walker

After all, all human beings are the same - made up of flesh, bone, and blood. We all want happiness, and we all try to avoid suffering. We are the members of one single human family, and our arguments are born from secondary causes. Disputes, lies, and killings are useless. — Dalai Lama XIV

If the enemy begins to love one of the king's generals, the king may half suspect that his general is turning traitor. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

First is a poem, a ballad, out of Scotland. You may say there is no king in it, and of course there isn't, which is what makes it so sad. The last line of the third verse, 'O he might hae been a king' is so sad that I don't like to look at it with both eyes at once. — William Mayne

I swung my head around and — James Patterson

The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It's perhaps the best book I've read in years. — Stephen Elliott

I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do. — Gustav Klimt

I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth. — Ina May Gaskin

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men. — Theodore White

Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it. — Rebecca Walker

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them. — David Duchovny