Hohensee Steven Quotes & Sayings

I'll lock thy heaven from thee.
O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! — William Shakespeare

Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me. — Ama Ata Aidoo

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse. — Giorgio Napolitano

When two people are in love, it's supposed to work. It has to work. No matter how difficult the circumstances are. — Stephanie Perkins

Did you used to play for Barcelona? Because that's not Barcelona football. — Cesc Fabregas

You may have failed at something you tried, but that does not make you a failure. — Jamie Larbi

I think that when Michelle Pfeiffer goes out, she's exactly what I aspire to be - she always looks beautiful and sexy, but she never looks like she's trying to be the center of attention. — Rena Sofer

But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and change and potentiality, but as a territory ahead that awaited his exploration. He saw it as the great University library, to which new wings might be built, to which new books might be added and from which old ones might be withdrawn, while its true nature remained essentially unchanged. — John Williams

Many priceless things can be bought. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist. — Barbara Kingsolver

The fact is that when I read the story of the Joaquin, I feel understood. Not in any literal sense - the comparison of my dread to theirs would be grotesque - but in the unrelenting terror, in that schism of the mind. Which is how I know now that the dead generations don't haunt down tidy racial lines, as if there were such a thing. The psychosis is shared. I was born into the fantasy of its supremacy. Others are born into the fantasy's cost. But the source of the violence is the same. The work I do is for no one's sake but my own. — Adam Haslett