Daudeline Quotes & Sayings

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them. — Kerry Greenwood

If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal. — Edgar Bronfman Jr.

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling. — Mitch Albom

It always disappointed me when mortals put themselves first and failed to see the big picture - the importance of putting me first — Rick Riordan

There are times when every act, no matter how private or unconscious, becomes political. Whom you live with, how you wear your hair, whether you marry, whether you insist that your child take piano lessons, what are the brand names on your shelf; all these become political decisions. At other times, no act
no campaign or tract, statement or rampage
has any political charge at all. People with the least sense of which times are, and which are not, political are usually most avid about politics. At six one morning, Will went out in jeans and a frayed sweater to buy a quart of milk. A tourist bus went by. The megaphone was directed at him. "There's one," it said. That was in the 1960's. Ever since, he's wondered. There's one what? — Renata Adler

This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling. — Bebe Neuwirth