Isabelles Cabinet Quotes & Sayings

If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs. — Debra Dean

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must. — Patricia Clarkson

I think expectations might be preceding reality, ... In the long run we've got some real opportunity here, but we've come a long way too quickly. We may need to ratchet it back a little and set a new foundation to grow for the rest of the year, but continuing at this pace is going to be difficult. — Michael Davies

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it. — Herbert Hoover

I have this theory, that this will be the only city that future archaeologists find, Las Vegas. The dry climate will preserve it all and teams of scientists in the year 5000 will carefully sweep and scrape away the sand to find pyramids and castles and replicas of the Eiffel Tower and the New York skyline and stripper poles and snapper cards and these future archaeologists will re-create our entire culture based solely on this one shallow and cynical little shithole. We can complain all we want that this city doesn't represent us. We can say, Yes, but I hated Las Vegas. Or I only went there once. Well, I'm sure not all Romans reveled in the torture-fests at the Colosseum either, but there it is. — Jess Walter

It's not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents' success. — Jesse Kellerman

We would not find any human species outside our solar system, unless the same environment like earth exists. — Joey Lawsin

He had imagined Constantinople, had wanted it for Mehmed. It had been simple and straightforward. But now he knew the true cost of things, the murky horrors of the distance between wanting something and getting it. — Kiersten White

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security. — Samantha Power

After a while, he understood that he was experiencing a great liberation; the liberation from his self-imposed limitation, from a slowness and heaviness expressed in his name and had been expressed in the slow measured steps of his father walking ponderously from one room of the museum to another; liberation from an image of himself in which, even when he wasn't reading, he was someone bending myopically over dusty books; an image he hadn't drawn systematically, but that had grown slowly and imperceptibly; the image of Mundus, which bore not only his own handwriting, but also the handwriting of many others who had found it pleasant and convenient to be able to hold on to this silent museum-like figure and rest in it. — Pascal Mercier

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti] — Irving Stone

Rather than live on in the hearts and minds of my fellow man, I would rather live on in my apartment. — Woody Allen