Haefeli David Quotes & Sayings

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work out in the world, written and published, I like to imagine it's being read by some stranger somewhere who doesn't have anyone around him to talk to about books and writing - maybe a would-be writer, maybe a little lonely, who depends on a certain kind of writing to make him feel more comfortable in the world. — Don DeLillo

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family. — Magdi Yacoub

Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron. — George R R Martin

What people are feeling is the similarity in what I do and how I'm capable of breaking a new artist into a competitive field. People can't wrap their head around the fact that Gaga did not do that on her own. She didn't. There was a Laurieann Gibson. — Laurieann Gibson

Hmm, I wondered as I knocked on Stephan's door, would you call a mischievous young ghoul? A ghouligan? I snorted at my own pun. I cracked myself up. — Elizabeth A. Reeves

You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects. — Jane Haddam

I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better. — Bob Barker

Life is a journey of faces. Each face sees a new group of people changing the face of life and living! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today. — Jonathan Kozol

His restraint was driving Connelly insane. He wanted to see Azariah lose it and totally let go. Damn, he wanted to fuck the control right out of him. — Elizabeth Varlet

The last thing I need is to get involved with the bad boy of the ice planet. — Ruby Dixon

I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come. — Dennis Quaid

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness — Charles Baudelaire

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught. — A. N. Wilson

I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. — V.S. Naipaul