Gushed Def Quotes & Sayings

Writing is its own intoxication. — Charles Bukowski

It would seem to me that the solitude of working in the wilds is not healthy for a man. — Patrick DeWitt

It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course. — Warren Stephens

It was an irresistible novelty having a conversation about books with a stranger. — Jaclyn Dolamore

You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. — Simon Cowell

anger against a kinsman was felt in the flesh, not in the marrow — Chinua Achebe

A new generation of avaricious and egocentric Americans, in the thrall of anti-industrial ideologies, shuns the productive adventures of creation to pursue the comfort and security of the welfare state, abetted by the discount windows at the Federal Reserve, guarantees for "green jobs" and solar enterprises, the triple-A assurances of Fannie and Freddie, and the bonanzas with which we reward litigation against the productive. — George Gilder

I'd been waiting for you to come along; I just didn't know it until you smiled at me. — C.P. Smith

The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed. — Christophe Agou

Though always frank, the novelist was never wholly sincere. — Julian Barnes

All the kick-ass girls have red hair. — Marion Roach

I don't think that loneliness is necessarily a bad or unconstructive condition. My own skill at jamming time may actually be dependent on some fluid mixture of emotions, among them curiosity, sexual desire, and love, all suspended in a solvent medium of loneliness. I like the heroes or heroines of books I read to be living alone, and feeling lonely, because reading is itself a state of artificially enhanced loneliness. Loneliness makes you consider other people's lives, makes you more polite to those you deal with in passing, dampens irony and cynicism. The interior of the Fold is, of course, the place of ultimate loneliness, and I like it there. But there are times when the wish for others' voices, for friendliness returned, reaches unpleasant levels, and becomes a kind of immobilizing pain. That was how it felt as I finished packing up the box of sex machines. — Nicholson Baker

The difference between Nazism and Communism is just the size of the leader's moustache. — Adriano Bulla

When she's in the same room as you, she commands your full attention." "Is it that obvious?" "It couldn't have been more obvious if you had painted this is my mate on your forehead with an arrow pointing to Anya. — Kiersten Fay

Coffee shop owner April Cassidy isn't looking for love. — Kristin Miller