Ditzen Quotes & Sayings

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me. — Catherine Helen Spence

I feel something, I do it. I want something, I take it. — Michelle Hodkin

Let us be vulgar and have some fun, let us invite the President. — Henry James

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets. — Ben Bernanke

Most people are resistant to ideas, especially new ones. But they are
fascinated by character. Extravagance of personality is one way in which
the pill can be sugared and the public induced to look at works dealing
with ideas. — Paul Johnson

against his. No force of will could make his — Nora Roberts

Perhaps, Herr Ditzen, it is less important where one lives than how one lives. — Erik Larson

If you ask permission from enough people, eventually you will find someone to say, "NO! — Ron Howson

I think as an actor ... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity. — Michael Mando

A fellow writer told me that Richard [Hell] once told her that the best thing about being a rock 'n roll star would be the option of constructing his environment so that he would never have to be around anyone he didn't want to know from, which not only sounds like building your own concentration camp but is just exactly what most of the declining rockstars of the Sixties have done to themselves. — Lester Bangs

The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. That's the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger. — Lisa Unger

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal. — Michelle Malkin

Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty
What justifies the homicide when he dies? — Masta Killa

You have to consider that countries have now joined the EU that had no sovereignty for decades, countries like Poland, or others that weren't even countries, like the Baltic states. Independence is especially important for these states. — Lech Kaczynski

Beware the seeds that are planted, even in the most fallow of fields. For those we lay with callous hands, might very well prove to be those of our ultimate destruction. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The spirits of Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld and Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebbing waft through the text to lend 'The Third Sex' an air of scientific authority. — Stacey D'Erasmo