Fabulous Opening Line Quotes & Sayings

To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor. — Deanna Raybourn

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. — Maria Popova

When in doubt, take more time. — John Zimmerman

Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being. — Elvis Costello

Nobody could be a professional cartoonist, because you have to do something you don't like to do in order to be a responsible adult and pay the rent. — David Rees

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead. — Randy Harrison

The pleasure of kindness is that it connects us with others; but the terror of kindness is that it makes us too immediately aware of our own and other people's vulnerabilities (vulnerabilities that we are prone to call failings when we are at our most frightened). Vulnerability - particularly the vulnerability we call desire - is our shared biological inheritance. Kindness, in other words, opens us up to the world (and worlds) of other people in ways that we both long for and dread. How can people, from childhood onward, feel confident enough to take such risks? — Adam Phillips