Gertrude Von Le Fort Quotes & Sayings

A novel has to entertain
that's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. — Barbara Kingsolver

I think that if we just listen to ourselves we know what it is we have to do ... And I have come o think that however much it hurts, however hard it is, we have to listen. We have to live our lives. — Linda Olsson

Hannakins: I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V. -A — Sara Shepard

There is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work, and that's worth more to most of us than money. — Malcolm Gladwell

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons. — Tony Snow

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls
the World. — Lord Byron

While I was in college, I became a page at ABC. Suddenly I was working for Good Morning America, local news, national news. The page is the lowest rung of the ladder, and it's the also the place where you can ask any question and not feel dumb. — Anne Sweeney

Learn to associate ideas worthy of God with all that happens in Nature - the sunrises and the sunsets, the sun and the stars, the changing seasons, and your imagination will never be at the mercy of your impulses, but will always be at the service of God. — Oswald Chambers

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it. — Richard M. Nixon

He went away as if weights were tied to every limb that bore him from her. — Elizabeth Gaskell

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception. — Ashley Montagu

He entered his wife's drawing-room as one enters a theatre, was acquainted with everybody, equally pleased to see everyone and equally indifferent to them all. — Leo Tolstoy

My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say. — Becky G

I'm smiling because you are absolutely beautiful." Danger couldn't have been more stunned had he told her to take a flying jump off the Eiffel Tower. It'd been a long time since a man, especially one as handsome as Alexion, had complimented her. She'd almost forgotten the weird fluttering such a thing caused in the stomach. The little bit of embarrassment that was counterbalanced by a slice of pride and gratitude. "Thank you." "You're welcome. — Sherrilyn Kenyon