Karttrite Quotes & Sayings

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work out in the world, written and published, I like to imagine it's being read by some stranger somewhere who doesn't have anyone around him to talk to about books and writing - maybe a would-be writer, maybe a little lonely, who depends on a certain kind of writing to make him feel more comfortable in the world. — Don DeLillo

... what your life means depends on how you tell the story. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Most performers reinvent themselves. Madonna, Michael Jackson, P. Diddy. They reinvent themselves into different kinds of images. Elvis [Presley] was always himself, an original, and he never tried to be anything but that. — Pat Boone

The more primitive a man is the better he believes himself to be. — Erich Maria Remarque

Positive change leads to increased motivation and increased motivation leads to more positive change. Embracing — Amy Morin

Don't put your life on hold for someone, or you'll wake up at forty-two with an empty house and a terrifying sense of freedom and no energy or innocence left to enjoy it. — Leah Reader

If we want to destroy radical Islamic terrors, we can't disassociate ourselves from peace loving Muslims. — Jeb Bush

Even so, I was proud of myself for taking action at all. I didn't hide or run away or pretend the ugliness didn't happen. I stood up and said something that was true. I said it out loud, and by doing so, I was standing up for lots of people, not just me. — Lauren Myracle

I hate London when it's not raining. — Groucho Marx

There was this to be said for weddings over battles, at least; it was less likely that someone would cut off your nose. — George R R Martin

If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them. — Charles Bukowski

is not to be expected that there should be agreement about the definition of any thing, until there is agreement about the thing itself. — John Stuart Mill

I am sorry," I whispered to Reyes.
He wrapped his long fingers around my neck and buried his face in my hair. He smelled like a lightening storm. His emotions electricity. His body the desert after a rain. Fresh. Starkly beautiful. Dangerous.
"Are you okay?" he asked, his breath on my neck.
"I am now. — Darynda Jones

The little toy piped on and into "London Bridge" in the same cheerfully lunatic tone. It was enough to make anyone crazy, but it probably had an extra effect on someone like MacGregor who lived for children. At any rate, I certainly hoped so. I had quite deliberately chosen the little keyboard to lure him out, and I sincerely hoped, in fact, that he would think he had been found out - and that a toy had come from Hell to punish him. After all, why shouldn't I enjoy what I do? — Jeff Lindsay

I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society. — Benazir Bhutto