Fairhead Fine Quotes & Sayings

Items that have become part of me, foliage that has grown to conceal the bare stem of my real personality, what I was like before I ever saw these books, or any book at all, come to that. — Alan Sillitoe

Be the slaughterhouse for sacred cows. — Cassandra Duffy

Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way. — Robert Rodriguez

Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough. — Madison Smartt Bell

The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission is, of all the prerequisites of love, the one which it values most highly and which makes it set little store by all the rest. Even those women who claim to judge a man by his looks alone, see in those looks the emanation of a special way of life. That is why they fall in love with soldiers or with firemen; the uniform makes them less particular about the face; they feel they are embracing beneath the gleaming breastplate a heart different from the rest, more gallant, more adventurous, more tender; and so it is that a young king or a crown prince may make the most gratifying conquests in the countries that he visits, and yet lack entirely that regular and classic profile which would be indispensable, I dare say, for a stockbroker. — Marcel Proust

I wanted to deny him, but that's the terrible power of a diary: it not only calls forth the person you used to be but rubs your nose in him, reminding you that not all change is evolutionary. More often than not, you didn't learn from your mistakes. You didn't get wiser, but simply older, growing from the twenty-five-year-old who got stoned and accidentally peed on his friend Katherine's kitten to the thirty-five-year-old who got drunk and peed in the sandbox at his old elementary school. "The sandbox!" my sister Amy said at the time. "Don't you realize that children have to pee in there? — David Sedaris

I was always more interested in being a woman first and an advertising person second. — Shirley Polykoff

Nicolas Morganti had stalked back into her life, stamped his foot, and demanded to stay. — Michele De Winton

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground. — Henry David Thoreau

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not. — Rita Mae Brown

Her whole body shivered and her face fell apart like a bride's pie crust. She put it together again slowly, as if lifting a great weight, by sheer will power. The smile came back, with a couple of corners badly bent. — Raymond Chandler

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling. — Richie Benaud

1. People who are — Jodi Picoult

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace. — Mahatma Gandhi

I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada. — Tia Carrere