Irimescu Dana Quotes & Sayings

I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along. — Stephen King

Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily's own voice. I wasn't trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson. — Jerome Charyn

Contented children are valuable, as is the peace that surrounds them. — Donita K. Paul

It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in. — Alexander Skarsgard

Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic diseases contributed to the destruction of classical civilization. Christianity owes a formidable debt to bubonic plague and to smallpox, no less than to earthquake and volcanic eruptions. — Hans Zinsser

I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous. — Blake Mycoskie

Worst of any, however, were the fertilizer men, and those who served in the cooking rooms. These people could not be shown to the visitor,
for the odor of a fertilizer man would scare any ordinary visitor at a hundred yards, and as for the other men, who worked in tank rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,
sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard! — Upton Sinclair

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong. — S.E. Hinton

Gen X wanted to succeed at this so she could tell people she did it, and little Gen Z wanted me to hand over that goddamn formula, and she was willing to scream until she got it. — Tina Fey

The old world had been consumed with the search for More Stuff. Now there was more stuff than anyone could ever use, and little or none of anything else. — Dan Wells

In America, a woman is killed by a spouse every two hours. — Gavin De Becker

Frustration is not a good enough reason to stop trying ... death is. — Sameh Elsayed

In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough. — Vijay Singh

I mean, if no one knows for sure what God's like, then why don't you just believe the people who think he's all rainbows and sunshine and loves you no matter what? — J.C. Lillis

I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken. — Benjamin Zander