Kontexture Quotes & Sayings

To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible. — John Glenn

Reviewers do not read books with much care ... their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist. — Anthony Burgess

There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary ... — Kathryn Stockett

My ability to adapt has always stood out. I've been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I'm familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me. — Aeriel Miranda

The air is dry and light and its effect on the mind is similar to that of a glass of Champagne before dinner. — Ahdaf Soueif

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training. — Joanne Harris

Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved — Michelangelo

He hears his mother and his sister-in-law talk about how lonely it is to be married to a musician, how many nights they spend alone. He wonders if I would be unhappy. I don't say anything. I like to spend my nights alone. — Eula Biss

Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise. — Konosuke Matsushita

If the challenge seems a bit too overwhelming, that's the one you want. Take it on & let it pull you up. — Ralph Marston