Kitsilano Secondary Quotes & Sayings

Brooke Dumas. I'm Remington. — Katy Evans

Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to earn dollars and sense so that it makes sense to us. We have a conviction - which is naive and misplaced - that being published has to do with being "good" while not being published has to do with being "amateur." ...
"Did you write today?"
"Yes."
"Then you're a writer today."
It would be lovely if being a writer were a permanent state that we could attain to. It's not, or if it is, the permanence comes posthumously.
A page at a time, a day at a time, is the way we must live our writing lives. Credibility lies in the act of writing. That is where the dignity is. That is where the final "credit" must come from. — Julia Cameron

Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back. — Rufus Sewell

As long as there's people, there's tales. — Simon P. Clark

What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer. — Neil Postman

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped. — Nawal El Saadawi

Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think. — Camille Paglia

Sorry," a half-gestured apology as the man, ten years younger than George (who was thirty-seven), disappeared — Philip J. Gould

My lord ... I can explain-," Louis-Cesare began, looking less than certain that he could do anything of the kind.
Radu held up a hand. "I am sure there is a perfectly good reason why my niece is naked and tied to her bed. I am also equally certain that I do not wish to hear it". — Karen Chance

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped. — Avicenna

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. — Graham Greene

In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things. — Janet Yellen

What we have here is a failure to communicate. — Cherise Sinclair

I have nothing I want to ask you, and if I did, you would probably lie anyway."
"I'm drunk. Drunk people tell the truth."
"Like hell they do. Besides you're not that drunk."
"Then dare me something."
I snorted. "No, because I'm not that drunk, or stupid. — Elizabeth Morgan