Ceding Commission Quotes & Sayings

And in fact, writing is one of the worst-paid professions in the world: The average book sells fewer than 500 copies The average writer makes less than $10,000 per book advance. The average self-published author makes less $5000 in royalties per year. — Monica Leonelle

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I had wondered if all mothers shared a fear of how vibrant and alive their children were. — Alice Sebold

When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.' — Garrett Hedlund

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
February 22, 1861 — Abraham Lincoln

What else is there to do but laugh and joke ... how else can you bear up under the unbearable? — Jim Thompson

The person who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the person who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal. — Wallace D. Wattles

Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America. — Curt Weldon

When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism. — Marcel Duchamp