Keeper Of Lost Causes Quotes & Sayings

The best lie is the one that has an element of truth, so it's good to include something real in your fiction. — Renee Conoulty

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others. — Aristotle.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing. — Barbara Stanwyck

Where I once found it safer to stay in the background ... I've stepped from the shadows into the spotlight. — Salle Merrill Redfield

As he slipped the lock into place again he realized his hand was trembling. He held up his shaky fingers where he could see them better and wondered at the equally weak flutter in his chest.

Hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing, but he thought perhaps he liked it. — Nora Sakavic

Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone. — Diane Keaton

If you buy the flag it's yours to burn. — Jesse Ventura

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession. — Friedrich Schiller

Finally there came a perfect storm of drafts from uptown and downtown, a big humid uric wind that swept the platform and then reversed itself, and reversed itself again, so that the dollar bills came levitating out of the guitar case and drifted up and down the platform like leaves in autumn, tumbling and skidding, while the band played on. It was perfectly beautiful and perfectly sad, and everybody on the platform knew it, nobody bent down to touch the money. — Jonathan Franzen

You're harshing my mellow. — Elle Casey

He's asked Master Zitwitz to leave the duke and travel with him as household controller to the Ambassador's residence in Turkey.'

Philippa Somerville blew her nose sharply. 'On the strength of his sweet cherry sauce?'

'On the strength, I think, of that handy right uppercut,' said Jerott. — Dorothy Dunnett

I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers. — Cecile McLorin Salvant

Productivity - true productivity - will never be better or stronger than the foundation you build it upon. — Tim Challies

Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"? — Margaret Ayer Barnes

This phrase did not have the ring of verisimilitude because I am famously bad at math. If I'm in charge of tipping at a restaurant, the waiter will either fall to his knees in gratitude or slash my tires. There ain't no Mr. In Between. — Celia Rivenbark