Handmaid's Tale Colonies Quotes & Sayings

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still ... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt. — Mickey Spillane

Basically, there is nothing new in the behavior of monsters, for the monster himself is nothing more than an invention of his victims. — Kobo Abe

Any officer can get by on his sergeants. To be a sergeant you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than just another officer. — Daniel Daly

We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel; and as we have historical assurance that the chapters in Matthew's gospel which contain the miraculous birth are an after addition not in the earliest manuscripts, it seems probable that these two poetical chapters in Luke may also be unhistorical, and borrowed from the Egyptian accounts of the miraculous births of their kings. — Samuel Sharpe

Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me. — William Eggleston

From today, painting is dead. — Paul Delaroche

There are times where people ask for a lock of your hair, but the truth is I have a lot of gratitude for my fans. — Nolan Gerard Funk

Her mother had responded in kind, and the result was "unpleasantness and misery rebounding all the time. — Francine Prose

We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world. — Paul Gibbons

It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from care. The human heart sets aside its questions when the future is too capricious. This is the irony of tribulation.
To know the world will never be so bad. — R. Scott Bakker

How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it. — Karen Gillan

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.' — Michael P. Anderson

Love it or hate it, this is me, this is who I am! — Nicki Minaj