Hoogstraten Books Quotes & Sayings

Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five. — Walter Kirn

The rhetoric of this masked master is one of the tolerance of difference. What better way to keep people in tow, hold them in the same old line of the same, than to console them with the noble lie of difference — Anonymous

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. — Stephen Fry

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes. — Henry Ward Beecher

Dali elbowed Jim in the ribs. "What he meant to say was he is sorry that duties of his office and his own paranoid nature caused him to overreact." Jim looked like someone had hit him on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper. "Yes." "And — Ilona Andrews

The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits. — Scott Adams

Imagination, which in truth
Is but another name for absolute power
And clearest insight, amplitude of mind,
And reason, in her most exalted mood. — William Wordsworth

And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't do together - — Patrick Ness

Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason? — Simon Sinek

She tried to show them how women could do anything, and do it competently. How problems could be worked out if they ignored what people said and did what conscience required. — Kiana Davenport

All things fell into the past but one; and what that was, was love. — Justin Cronin

I was blessed to grow up on a farm, and when you're a farm boy, exercise is part of your lifestyle. Like it or not, that environment makes you work out. On the farm, nature is your gym. You walk and run and swim and have to do a lot of work with animals too. — Cesar Millan

There was a noise above us like an airplane zoom, but it was getting too dark to see. People started laying on the horn, braying like bad geese in a panic. "I am here," Lila said with a trembly smile. Our driver's ed teacher had told us that's what the horn should mean. Not Move along, buddy or I am displeased but I am here. I am here, I am here, I am here! — Daniel Handler

I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine. — Magdalena Neuner

The man lived like a monk.
And made love like a sinner. — Cindy Gerard