Couleurs Quotes & Sayings

One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot dilute things into a novel. I think the first hundred pages of a novel are very important. That's where you set things up: the world, the characters. Once you've set that up, it'll be much easier. — Yiyun Li

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. — Charles Caleb Colton

Entropy
The Disintegrating Integration of
Cheez-Whiz Squirts Insipid Inspiration
Quoth the Oblong Eclipse of
Nether-Knowledge Never Knowing
Decaying Matter in a Decaying Orbit
Orangutans of Science
Study Ignorance of What
The Cows Already Know. — Ubiquitous Bubba

The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions. — Peter Tait

Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs - they're all the same. — Tom Gething From "Sabotage"

Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe, ... Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again. — Jim Henson

I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions. — Natalie Merchant

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact. — Margaret Atwood

I can help you shape your sitcom, I can help you think about what could make your sketch show better, but it won't help you get you a commission. — John Lloyd

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. — Albert Camus