Giugiulena Quotes & Sayings

When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name. — E.L. Konigsburg

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again. — Dagmar Godowsky

John Thorpe [ ... ] was a stout young man of middling height, who, with a plain face and ungraceful form, seemed fearful of being too handsome unless he wore the dress of a groom, and too much like a gentleman unless he were easy where he ought to be civil, and impudent where he might be allowed to be easy. — Jane Austen

So, what are you going to do about it?"
"Watch this!"
"Oh, that's just freaking great. 'Watch this!' The two most dangerous words in the English language. I'm getting out of here before lightning strikes. — Theodore Jerome Cohen

[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all work together, will be seen as a delayed but public act. — Clay Shirky

After twenty years in Canada, there are certain American lunatics who still fascinate me. — John Irving

It did no good to tell himself that it was all in his head if it went on happening anyway. His belief was not required; his disbelief of was no consequence. — Joe Hill

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra. — Max Roach

The migraine angel leaned hard on my shoulder and belched into my face. — Hilary Mantel

Then, touching the brim of his cap, he headed for home and the day's work, unaware that it would be his last. — Truman Capote

As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords. — Mark Twain