Idyllic Def Quotes & Sayings

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season. — Oscar Wilde

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own. — Virginia Foxx

If there's another writer, like Ross McDonald or Raymond Chandler, and all they're writing are mysteries, they won't be accepted," he said. "And that's problematic. A lot of so-called literary novels are just not very good. They're not well-written, they're not well-thought-out. They have pyrotechnics of intelligence.
"On the other hand, some of the best writers and speculative ideas are in science-fiction. The science-fiction genre is completely, completely segregated. And these people are writing good stuff. They're writing about where you're going, which means they're talking about where you are. — Walter Mosley

In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to me and a pity to throw away. After a while, some sheets in the Atlas acquired another value, after all - that is, it seemed to me that they could stand on their own terms, not only under the protection of the Atlas. — Gerhard Richter

I need to have the ball at my feet. That's when I know anything is possible. — Freddy Adu

True greatness is often unrecognized. — Russell H. Conwell

To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving. — Twyla Tharp

I have no concern with widening audience. — Louise Gluck

What's Mr. Dimming's first name?" "Wallace!" We all cracked up at that. — Sharon M. Draper

My shirt bunched up around my waist, and the feeling of his hi-there against my hoohah was indescribable. — Alice Clayton

I don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers. — Joe Montana

You can tell when women have a sensibility about, or a sense of bravery or a sense of understanding about their personal style that's outside of what you see from a magazine. — Jacob Hashimoto

In all my life I've never felt as right and certain as when I'm with him. — Garret Freymann-Weyr