Fiddes Payne Quotes & Sayings

... the art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea ... . It is on the back of an idea, something believed in with conviction or seen with precision and thus compelling words to a shape ... .
You have not finished with it because you have read it, any more than friendship is ended because it is time to part. Life wells up and alters and adds. Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered. So we look back upon essay after essay by Mr. Beerbohm, knowing that, come September or May, we shall sit down with them and talk. — Virginia Woolf

You know, when I'm looking at these '08 yachts that are for sale, I think "I could have just walked in with a briefcase of cash and put it on the table and walked out with a yacht." — Will Ferrell

1266What matters to the children's well-being isn't so much the level of the family's wealth as whether it is controlled by the mother or the father. — Nicholas D. Kristof

There is no such thing as a dog — Wei Wu Wei

Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep. — Brent Spiner