Filtraneroy Quotes & Sayings

What do writers look like? — Graham Spaid

Laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state. — Margaret Mead

I am beginning to rub my eyes at the prospect of peace. I think it will require more courage than anything that has gone before ... One will have to look at long vistas again, instead of short ones, and one will at last fully recognise that the dead are not only dead for the duration of the war. — Cynthia Asquith

But experience had taught her that such arguments failed. You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know. She — Anne Perry

It seemed so tawdry what he had offered her - mere money - compared with what she offered him. He offered her an extraneous thing with which he could part without a pang, while she offered him herself, along with disgrace and shame, and sin, and all her hopes of heaven. — Jack London

We all end up dying in the end. It's just a question of how and when. — Michael Monroe

I spent so much of my younger life drinking, and being drunk makes learning to be a grown-up kind of hard. — Jane Lynch

I believed in God as much as I believed in germs. It was something adults just scared you about, just habit, something I had to do. — Cecelia Ahern

The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win. — Thomm Quackenbush

I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun; it's the best job on Earth. — Ben Stein

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through. — Markus Zusak

You tasted like fire
And I miss that.
So, at times
I drank a little.
And at times,
I drank too much.
But I only drank
Till it burned me enough. — Saiber

No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I can only admire but cannot emulate the accuracy of judgment of those who pose the fair young mammals photographed in magazines where the general neckline is just low enough to provoke a past master's chuckle and just high enough not to make a postmaster frown. — Vladimir Nabokov

Obviously anything that accessorizes or enhances the iPhone is always pretty cool. — Harry Shum Jr.

The freedom of the press should be inviolate. — John Quincy Adams