Ignominiously Define Quotes & Sayings

It's only a story, isn't it?" ...
"Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story? — David Eddings

I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what I've written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire. — Robin Wasserman

I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves. — Niccolo Machiavelli

We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed. — Fred Upton

Generosity needs no logrolling. — Toba Beta

We've gotten to that stage all soulmates reach of speaking in broken phrases and incomplete sentences, our connected and all-knowing minds filling in the blanks left by redundant words. — A.J. Compton

Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania. — Hunter S. Thompson

I do think that that would be fair, but I can understand that people would be a little apprehensive to take that road because there is a tradition of natural-born women, but today where there are so many surgeries and so many people out there who have a need to change for a happier life, I do accept that because I believe it's a free country. — Olivia Culpo

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson