Doringcourt Quotes & Sayings

The Georgian had used more words in 5 minutes than Wyatt had spoken during 1872 and 1873 combined. — Mary Doria Russell

That which could hunger, could starve. — Octavia E. Butler

'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads unless you have recipes. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does. — Gloria Steinem

In the morning I drink a glass of sunshine to brighten my heart. I smile to spread the light of life. — Debasish Mridha

Never let anyone convince you of anything negative about yourself unless it is for your own betterment. — Bryant McGill

It takes guts to go after your dreams, and well, no guts, no story. — Lynn Isenberg

Love deeply without fearing of being hurt. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair. — Smokey Robinson

I do not want my new works to be generated in a market or audience of any kind. — Vincent Gallo

Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits of cartographic furniture that the often forgot to put the boring mountains and rivers in at all. — Terry Pratchett

As we sin, so do we suffer, — George R R Martin

When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, why can't I do anything I want to do? You know, go for it. — Carole King

The one cure for any organism, is to be set right--to have all its parts brought into harmony with each other; the one comfort is to know this cure in process. Rightness alone is cure. The return of the organism to its true self, is its only possible ease. To free a man from suffering, he must be set right, put in health; and the health at the root of man's being, his rightness, is to be free from wrongness, that is, from sin. A — George MacDonald

He considered getting up to check the color of the bong he'd be using but decided that obsessive checking and convulsive movements could compromise the atmosphere of casual calm he needed to maintain while he waited, protruding but not moving, for the woman he'd met at a design session for his agency's small campaign for her small theater company's new Wedekind festival, while he waited for this woman, with whom he'd had intercourse twice, to honor her casual promise. — David Foster Wallace