Kraljica Engleske Quotes & Sayings

Nature knows not to trust us. — Hugh Howey

Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom. — Walter Kirn

What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being good last year, and bribed, like children, into being good next year. I myself repudiate this paternalistic, indeed colonialist, attitude as a gross insult to our people — John James Cowperthwaite

Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but the laws have later been found to apply over much wider ranges of observations and much more accurately than the original data justified. — Richard Hamming

No one looks stupid when they're having fun. — Amy Poehler

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. — Gene Perret

Hell, I don't know if he speaks French. — Toe Blake

We have a language that reflects how we learn to paint, but not how we learn to paint our paintings. How do you describe the [reader to place words here] that changes when craft swells into art? — David Bayles

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life. — Andre Gide

I was watching Maury Povich the other day. He had these people on who say that they've had near death experiences. Do you ever notice they always say the same thing? 'I remember seeing this really bright, white light.' It's like, of course, you pinhead, it's the paramedic looking in your pupils with a penlight. — Carol Leifer

Let me sum it up for ya: We got some people who work for a living, and we got some people who vote for a living. — Hank Williams Jr.

[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not." — Jimmy Buffett

I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford. That's who I am. I have been writing under this other person's name. I write some things now as Chloe Wofford, private things. I regret having called myself Toni Morrison when I published my first novel, The Bluest Eye. — Toni Morrison

And so it went in football. The game attracted the very people most likely to get in trouble outside — Michael Lewis

Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire. — Cassandra Clare