Dirty Horney Quotes & Sayings

When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son." — A.A. Allen

I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor. — Patricia MacLachlan

For exams, I swotted so hard because I couldn't bear the thought of not coming first. — Lily James

Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage. — Petrarch

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom. — C.S. Lewis

Did you seriously just use the word 'loins'? — J.D. Cunegan

But how nothingness invades us! We are scarcely born ere decay begins for us, in such a way that the whole of life is but one long combat with it, more and more triumphant, on its part, to the consummation, namely, death; and then the reign of decay is exclusive. — Gustave Flaubert

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000. — Iain McGilchrist

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that. — Halle Berry

What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become. — Brenda Shoshanna

I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market. — John Kenneth Galbraith