Lailezou Quotes & Sayings

I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist. — Orhan Pamuk

I thought for sure you were about to ravish her. I've read a lot of books, and that was just like a scene that ends with the hero ravishing the maiden."
"I was closer to strangling her."
The little old lady chuckles in a knowing kind of way. "That's a different kind of book, sonny. — Emma Chase

Boredom, like hookworm, is endemic. — Beryl Markham

Despite his attempts to maintain a vigorous structure of errands, golf games, visits, and meetings, there were sometimes days like this one, filled with rain and touched with a gnawing sense of parts missing from life. When the slick mud ran in the flower beds and the clouds smothered the light, he missed his wife. — Helen Simonson

Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully by King George VI to inspire the British people to fight invasion. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she found the best sort of perfection
the kind that never demands it of others. — Martine Leavitt

I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise. — George Gershwin

Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash ... all the things that I do now. My background is very normal and steady, and that's what I like. — Vicky McClure

THE ADMIRALTY'S focus was elsewhere, on a different ship that it deemed far more valuable. — Erik Larson

Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours. — William Zinsser

There is no other way to beat a terrorist. You must fight like him, or he will surely kill you. — Marcus Luttrell

Here's a news flash
writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse
to make up a world in which we get to control everything and everyone. We decide who enters and who exits, what the weather will be, who will hook up with whom, who will win and who will lose. It makes us feel powerful and, in all honesty, has relatively little to do with thinking about what will make anyone else happy. — Victoria Laurie

All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be. — Freya Stark

A focused resume is a powerful resume. A resume that tries to be all things to all people ends up being nothing at all. — Jay Conrad Levinson