Gladioli Nanus Quotes & Sayings

Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him. — Tom Ford

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. — Raymond Chandler

In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him. — Nancy Kress

People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals. — Michael Shermer

Charley Davidson, Private Investigator, Because No One Is Better At Investigating Your Privates — Darynda Jones

You always kill the one you love. — Chuck Palahniuk

Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit. — Andy Goldsworthy

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed. — Benjamin Franklin

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the nurse's office? I know it'd be a tight fit, but it would be sort of perfect. — Robyn Schneider

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw

furnaces for dyers and brewers, which when known will be used without — David Wootton

So how do you feel about it?" "I'm not upset, but my mom was crying and it's the first time I've ever seen her cry. Dad always wanted whiskey poured on his grave, so my brother said, 'I just hope he doesn't mind me filtering it through my bladder first.'" Mystery — Neil Strauss

Intolerance has been the curse of our country. — James Larkin

But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's a myth - that the first draft is more creative and everything after that is ruining creativity. — K.M. Soehnlein

When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end. — Phil Collins