Dell Elefante Marino Quotes & Sayings

For I will raise her statue in pure gold;
That while Verona by that name is known,
There shall no figure at such rate be set
As that of true and faithful Juliet — William Shakespeare

But the observers were even more surprised by her thigh boots, black breeches, and the red leather corset she wore over a white shirt. It was a daring outfit, to say the least... She also wore a sword and rode her horse like a man. It was scandalous...
Page 37 of ARC — Pierre Pevel

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language. — Jesmyn Ward

Do not be more devoted to your own brain than you are to the Bible. — John Piper

Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want? — Orson Scott Card

Your girl needs to be spanked, Lance. — Lora Leigh

I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be. — Matthew Specktor

Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given ... this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write. — Bret Lott

One picks one's way about through the glass and aluminum doors, the receptionists' smiles, the lunches with too much alcohol, the openings with more, the mobs of people desperately trying to define good taste in such loud voices one can hardly hear oneself giggle, while the shebang is lit by flashes and flares through the paint-stained window, glimmers under the police-locked door, or, if one is taking a rare walk outside that day, by a light suffusing the whole sky, complex as the northern aurora. — Samuel R. Delany

I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you just want a city of your own. — Andrew O'Hagan

I used to have this joke: 'Every hallway is a runway.' — Tyra Banks

Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo
and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds. — Sam Kinison