Hawksong Online Quotes & Sayings

Most of us lie because it is our last resort to get out of any uncomfortable situation. — Bria Guishard

It cannot be too plainly stated that it is quite unimportant whether photography produces 'art' or not. Its own basic laws, not the opinions of art critics, will provide the only valid measure of its future worth. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

By her shining and her power he knew her. — Mary Renault

I never liked bananas much anyway. Two-thirds of the way down even one banana I am willing to concede defeat smilingly and give the rest to the nearest monkey. — Robert Benchley

Victimization is often a dynamic. In many cases the victim is also a participant in their own victimization. — Bryant McGill

Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence. — Samuel Beckett

The most striking thing about Graham's discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word "age". — Benjamin Graham

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week. — Maeve Binchy

She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream. — Gordon Lightfoot

It was endlessly tricky being in the know. It was a state Carmen had a achieved with a certain bravado, but she found it difficult to maintain. Without Jones, she could easily slip out of the know, relapse into her natural eagerness, and probably never get hired for another part in her life. — Ann Brashares

What we read as adults should be read, I think, with no warnings or alerts beyond, perhaps: enter at your own risk. We need to find out what fiction is, what it means, to us, an experience that is going to be unlike anyone else's experience of the story. — Neil Gaiman

It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got me here, nothing else. — Robert Pattinson

Can you come as soon as you're done with work? At the house. Your mom threw a bowl at my mom. "I — Tijan

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right. — Arianna Huffington