Chesnays Quotes & Sayings

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am. — John Marsden

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. — Peter De Vries

The invention progress is tough sometimes. When I first choreographed the Drunken Master in the past with Jackie Chan, I spent months to create the whole sequence. There were no fight sequences before; it's just a name. I have to choreograph it all by myself. — Yuen Woo-ping

Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse. — W. Edwards Deming

There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they see it, than that of the man in the street. — Martin Amis

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title. — Gene Tierney

Like everything else, the beans had exploded with growth in the last few days. "Holy jumping garbanzos!" my father declared. My mother answered with, "Great leapin' limas! — Will Hobbs

Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow — William Shakespeare