Cressworth Quotes & Sayings

Please, don't hate me because I am beautiful. — Michael Buckley

My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for. — Salman Rushdie

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused. — Charles I Of England

A simple act of kindness could be the source of great happiness. — Debasish Mridha

And when it comes to questioning people, I have a lot more finesse than High King Let's Beat The Shit Out Of Them Until They Answer Us. The nonviolent art of interrogating someone is totally lost on Kip. (Syn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I started just naturally turning into a nicer person, and it actually helped broaden and lengthen my career. — Kurt Fuller

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem. — Ilka Chase

I just want you to be mine," he says.
"You have me; body and soul, and all the parts in between. — S.A. Wolfe

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat. — Mickey Mantle

...I won't ever again allow doubt to come in and dissolve my ability to live life as fully as I can. — Ann Linnea

I love knowing that people now own a piece of a world that I created. — Ainsley Peace

Dreams always end before you kill the last person. — Steve Aylett

When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances. — H.W. Brands

Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count. — Robert A. Heinlein

So, you may ask, what is the use of studying the world of imagination where anything is possible and anything can be assumed, where there are no rights or wrongs and all arguments are equally good? One of the most obvious uses, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance. In the imagination our own beliefs are also only possibilities, but we can also see the possibilities in the beliefs of others. Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them as also possibilities. It's possible to go to the other extreme, to be a dilettante so bemused by possibilities that one has no convictions or power to act at all. But such people are much less common than bigots, and in our world much less dangerous. — Northrop Frye