Expamples Quotes & Sayings

The simplicity of knowing what's coming isn't so simple after all. — Cat Patrick

I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice. — Claudia Schiffer

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily. In the first paragraph you solve most of the problems with your book. The theme is defined, the style, the tone. At least in my case, the first paragraph is a kind of sample of what the rest of the book is going to be. That's why writing a book of short stories is much more difficult than writing a novel. Every time you write a short story, you have to begin all over again. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on. — Mark Twain

For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something you can really escape into. — Agnes Bruckner

ART
Art is that thing having to do only with itself - the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are no expamples of art, nor good reasons to think that it will ever exist. (Everything that has been made has been made with a purpose, teverything with an end exists outside of that thing, i.e., "I want to sell this", or "I want this to make me famous and loved", or "I want this to make me whole", or worse, "I want this to make others whole.") And yet we continue to write, paint, sculpt and compose. Is this foolish of us? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Cole was meticulous to a fault; office scuttlebut had it that he never went out in public without first having his shoelaces ironed. — Robert Littell

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay. — Chely Wright

... Oh dear, I sometimes think ... whatever would I do if anything happened ... But thinking's no good, is it, madam? Thinking won't help. When I find myself doing that, I say to myself, come along, Ellen! Stop it this moment, my girl! Stop that silly thinking ... ! — Katherine Mansfield