Demeans Def Quotes & Sayings

A pleasantly situated hotel close to the sea, and chalets by the water's edge where one breakfasted. Clientele well-to-do, and although I count myself no snob I cannot abide paper bags and orange peel. ("Not After Midnight") — Daphne Du Maurier

As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but that its emotional heart would lie in her own unhappiness for having failed to find the one thing she wanted. For the first time she was a character in her own writing, and her frailties and mistakes were trapped on the page by the beauty and unsparing focus of her prose. Towards the end it was a battle to finish a page. The story was the story she had told herself for decades, deep within her own mind, and now as it grew, line by line, on the paper before her, she wrestled with each turn in the path all over again, as if it were still possible to change its course with the power of her words. — Frederick Weisel

I love taking pictures. I'm always the one with the camera! — Cindy Busby

Nick snatches the picture from the man's hand and laughs. "This is funny to you, asshole?"
Nick tosses the picture back behind him. "No. No, it's not. What is funny is that you believe your whore of a wife."
"Stand up your spineless punk!" The man yells in sheer rage. — Jennifer Loren

One can't believe impossible things. — Lewis Carroll

Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable. — Gerard Puccio

They acted because they loved acting, but also, let's be honest here, to be noticed. All they wanted was to be seen. — Emily St. John Mandel

The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars which hung from the inky sky like bunches of inconceivably heavy, lustrous grapes, dusted with the yeast of eternity. — Will Self

The only way to coast is downhill. — Zig Ziglar

Some man would come to her room. Maybe she would hesitate, and he'd grab her, pin her to the mattress, force her to cooperate. — Cherise Sinclair

With the amount of sugar I'm doing, she's lucky I can remember the colour of my eyes without a mirror. — Lauren Beukes

No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it. — Esther Dyson

Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can. — Tim Tebow