Dead Writers Club Quotes & Sayings

...Don't you ever get the feeling that for all that people try to be so civilized and sophisticated, we're really just animals pretending to be human? — Marie Zhuikov

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain. — Bill Bryson

You will find that wanting, even loving, is not enough. — Mary Balogh

By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most importantly, we are losing the beauty of our sport. We do not want gymnastics to lose what makes it so great - its artistic beauty. — Svetlana Boginskaya

My big success is to see my guests happy when they like my food. My place is not a restaurant. It's my house. The people are not customers. They are my guests, my friends. — Julie King

In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you're not good at guitar. — Autre Ne Veut

Just think," I say, trying to calm her down. "The two of us naked in a car, but safe and sound all the same, kissing each other to the clap of thunder and the sound of the driving rain!"
"This is impossible," she says.
"But just think. Wouldn't you like, from this snug little shelter in the midst of cosmic rage, to stick your tongue out to the entire world? — Naguib Mahfouz

I am as my Creator made me and since He is satisfied, so am I. — Minnie Smith

When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others lives.When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness. — Arthur Dobrin

...a murder of crows gormandized until they were satiated. — Rex Curry

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting. — Paul Gauguin

If a drug failed as often and had as many side effects as western marriage, the FDA probably would not approve it. — Ron Davison

You're not honey. Your'e wine. You're the deepest, darkest shadow under a tree on a blazing day. You're strong and hard, coursing like a current at the bottom of a river. — Cate Tiernan

Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be. — Rajneesh

Each life makes its own imitation of immortality. — Stephen King

Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear. — Sue Miller