Finalizes In Publishing Quotes & Sayings

After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is. — Ben Fountain

The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion. — Thomas Harris

That easy, confident grin returned. "Don't worry, it's easily forgotten."
"Well," I said huffily, "it shouldn't be that easily forgotten."
"Would you like it better if I say I'll eventually forget it but not without a great deal of struggle and torment?"
"Yes."
"Done. — Richelle Mead

If stocks are optimistic, then so am I. — Lawrence Kudlow

The classical anthropological question, What is man? - "how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!" - is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence with a chapter on Physical Anthropology and then forget the whole topic and go on to Culture. — Paul Goodman

How much do you have in common with
this guy?"
"Not much. Basically we're polar opposites.
But do you want to know the main attraction,
the weird part? ... It's the talking."
"Talking about what?"
"About anything," I said earnestly. "We
get started and it's like sex, this back-andforth,
and we're both so there, do you know
what I mean? We rattle each other. And
some conversations seem to be happening on
a few different levels at once. But even when
we're disagreeing on something, there's a
weird kind of harmony in it. A connection. — Lisa Kleypas

Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me. — Charlotte Bronte

Searching for the real faces of every face we met! This is what our life is! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He is as good as his word - and his word is no good. — Seumas MacManus

All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities ... toward full European integration. — Igor Luksic

A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others. — Steven Pinker

Loving Sarah had freed all my tender feelings for women. I could always find in my heart an excuse for anything any woman did. — Isabel Miller

We should not only let our troubles confirm our dedication to God, but our prosperity should do the same. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

And see she flies, and she is everywhere. — Nick Drake

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft. — John Dufresne