Bookselling Ireland Quotes & Sayings

Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu. — Jennifer Ellison

The bar was crowded with theorizing Sherlockians, who in the absence of any actual evidence had created grand machinations to explain the crime. Minor points of canonical disagreement became reasons for brutal murder. Some tried to piece together their theories in small groups, hoping that with enough brainpower and expertise they might arrive at a solution. Others jumped straight over the "investigation" phase and landed square at the end of the story they were creating, instantly accusing the man across the table of some vile treachery. And, moreover, actually employing phrases like "vile treachery" in doing so. Everyone was a suspect. But at the world's largest Sherlockian gathering, everyone was a detective as well. — Graham Moore

My mother always helped me because she was kind of a research fanatic. When she would write a screenplay, there would be so much research all over the walls. And so when I started working as an actress, I would do the same thing. She instilled in me a love of taking everything very seriously. It didn't matter what it was. — Jennifer Jason Leigh

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. — Milan Kundera

She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull, — Sinclair Lewis

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose. — Bertrand Russell

Compassion allows us to use our own pain and the pain of others as a vehicle for connection. This is a delicate and profound path. We may be adverse to seeing our own suffering because it tends to ignite a blaze of self-blame and regret. And we may be adverse to seeing suffering in others because we find it unbearable or distasteful, or we find it threatening to our own happiness. All of these possible reactions to the suffering in the word make us want to turn away from life. — Sharon Salzberg

If you believe, have faith and hope then you'll discover love — Donna Raye

Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation. — William Faulkner

The formula 'two and two make five' is not without its attractions. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position. — George Ade

I'm bound to go to heaven because I've already served my time in hell. — Hunter S. Thompson

Aging is mostly the failure to repair. — Gregory Benford

Love is giving everything and taking nothing — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Your ability to solve complex problems may make you overthink simple problems, going for the convoluted answer and overlooking the simple, more obvious solution. — Anonymous