Cristee Fitzsimmons Quotes & Sayings

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader ... — Owen Wister

I pulled back because I am not a hugger. Never have been. When someone wraps their arms around me, I shut down and stand there with my eyes closed, waiting for it to be over. — David Sedaris

Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction. — John Adams

Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful. — Leslie Mann

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David. — Michelangelo

Even a pain in the ass needs someone to care about them — E.L. James

Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about. — Ed Harris

We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people. — Kazuo Ishiguro

But Fr Gaunt was so clipped and trim he had no antennae at all for grief. He was like a singer who knows the words and can sing, but cannot sing the song as conceived in the heart of the composer. Mostly he was dry. He spoke over young and old with the same dry music. But — Sebastian Barry

No one can keep out of conflict, the entire world is at war, and even though the allies are doing better, the end is nowhere in sight. — Anne Frank

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not. — Heinrich Heine

Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody. — Ethan Canin

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth. — Barack Obama