Durbervilles Damsel Quotes & Sayings

Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that's not true at all. — David Stockman

I put it into my mind to become a complete player, a complete player. — Carlos Zambrano

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless? — John Dufresne

Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she's come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think. — Christina Baker Kline

Six wives the King's had now.' Barak's words dragged me from my reverie. 'We can't even get one between us. — C.J. Sansom

A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. — Jim Harrison

A Caution to Everybody
consider the Auk.
Becoming extinct before because he forgot out to fly and could only walk.
Consider Man, who may well become extinct,
Because he forgot how to walk and learned to fly before he thinked. — Ogden Nash

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. — James McBride

...it is not the victory but why a man fights the battle which makes him a hero.

Kate speaking to Callum in LAIRD OF THE MIST — Paula Quinn

For the first time in a long while I was in the mood to accomplish something. I switched off the TV and pulled out the Oriole epilepsy drug ads and spread them over my desk. Then I picked up my red pen and went to work. — Mark SaFranko

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth. — Stefan Zweig

On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography : lies , distortions, and half-truths half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion. — Bill Moyers

ECE increasingly is the recipient of others' decisions, leaving it reactive to others' change agenda. — Stacie G. Goffin

My priority as a writer is that my reader's entertainment comes first, second, and last. — B.J. Kibble

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors. — Yochai Benkler