Epigraphs For A Book Quotes & Sayings

Read the book of life or a life in a book: it's all epigraphs and anagrams. — Johnny Rich

I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek, middle French or, when they were translated, they never seemed to relate to the book at hand. Basically, they seemed to be there just to baffle you and to impress you with how smart the writer is. — Jim Crace

Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer. — George Carlin

I doubt there is even a word in Afghani for peace. Nearest to it is probably a phrase that translates as "just getting my break back and reloading — Nick Revell

One of the things I try to do is try to make repetitions, rhymes, and mirrorings across the subject matter of my own books so that the chapter titles and the epigraphs and pictures all kind of form a tapestry. In this book, I retell fifteen of the stories. You have the critical frame, and then you have these rosettes like the motif in a carpet. — Marina Warner

All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life. — Candace Bushnell

I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own. — Big Sean

It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed. — Norman Lear

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category. — Iain McGilchrist

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt. — Garson Kanin