Footnotes Block Quotes & Sayings

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. — Stephen King

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live. — Sloane Crosley

It's so easy to be around people when everything is ... well ... easy. But the people who've been with you through thick and thin, who've seen you at your absolute worst, and who still want to hang out with you at the end of the day?
If that isn't family, I don't know what is. — Jacqueline E. Smith

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game. — Pete Rose

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to. — Marco Pierre White

The first and the best victory is to conquer self. — Plato

It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up. — Zinedine Zidane

The feel of the place was deep, the prehistoric heartbeat of the rocks complicating the music, the people bright, all different kinds of dancers, smilers, swayers, swirlers, smokers, beer-drinking boppers, tripsters, spinners. I looked back at the crowd ... and saw the show for a moment as a jewel ... like a gem in a bracelet: an ornament on the body of the country, glittering in the coming darkness. — Jason Burke

The more wine I drink in moderation, the better I am. — Julia Barrett

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion. — Brit Marling

YOU-CAN-DO-ANYTHING! — Timothy Pina

I hate when someone keep on asking me to guess even after I failed to crack twice! — Nelson Jack