Cilvia Quotes & Sayings

You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out. — Jamie Zawinski

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words. — Virginia Woolf

My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

Music is pretty therapeutic. — Jamie Bell

Abelard did not look up from the god at his feet. — Max Gladstone

The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger. — John Calipari

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own. — Joseph P. Farrell

Prophets from Amos and Isaiah to Gandhi and King have shown how frequently compassion demands confrontation. Love without criticism is a kind of betrayal. Lying is done with silence as well as with words. — William Sloane Coffin

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit. — Jennifer Weiner

The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame. — Theodore Roosevelt

Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say. — Pope John Paul II

I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater ... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake — Rick Owens

Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn't read the book at first. I read the script just to see what I would think of the script and I really liked it. — Virginia Madsen