Kagin Auctions Quotes & Sayings

All days are happy...if you let them be. — Elizabeth Webster

I found the best thing
I could do
was just to type away
at my own work
and let the dying
die
as they always have. — Charles Bukowski

Sometimes painful endings bring the best new beginnings. — Shae Ross

Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations. — Dee Rees

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards. — Mary Karr

When I originally wrote "Jealousy," it was more like an exercise to try to write a girl-group kind of pop song. It was really contrary to most of the material I'd ever written. I didn't pay much attention to the song after I'd recorded it. I didn't really perform it at all the last 20 years. When it came time to make the new record, I decided to make peace with the song and have fun with it. — Natalie Merchant

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

I am fonder of my garden for the trouble it gives me. — Reginald Farrer

Using porn to guide sexual activity, is like using Jackass to model behaviour. — Merlyn Gabriel Miller

A reputation is really hard to live down. — Mickey Rourke

In jargon nobody ever does anything, feels anything, or causes anything; nobody has an opinion. Opinions are had; causes result in; factors affect. Everything is reduced to vague abstraction. The writer can even abolish himself, for jargon never sounds as though anybody had written it; it seems simply to come about, as from a machine, and it talks mechanically of things that come about, through some indistinct interaction of forces." - Robert Waddell, "Formal Prose and Jargon," in Modern Essays on Writing and Style 84, 89 (Paul C. Wermuth ed., 1964). — Bryan A. Garner

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. — Theodore Roosevelt

As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time. — Dan John