Lakatan Quotes & Sayings

Saer is a great big poop, and you shouldn't listen to anything he says," I said, panting just a little.
"Obviously, he was trying to demoralize me."
"Men who are poops demoralize people all the time," I agreed — Katie MacAlister

I think I've succeeded more by learning what needed to be done next and getting help in getting it done. I was just very focused and impatient. — John Kendrew

The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time. — Laura Anne Gilman

All through the Torah, God is pictured as having hands, a face. The rabbis say, Of course God doesn't really have hands, but the Torah uses the language of faces and hands and eyes so that we will have an easier time wrapping our minds around this infinite, handless God. That is what you say if you are a rabbi. But if you are a good novelist, you actually give Him hands and eyes by the end of the book, and that is what the Bible does. It says, in Deuteronomy, that God brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; and then it gives Him an arm in the Gospel of Matthew. — Lauren F. Winner

Beauvoir left their home wanting to call his wife and tell her how much he loved her, and then tell her what he believed in, and his fears and hopes and disappointments. To talk about something real and meaningful. He dialed his cell phone and got her. But the words got caught somewhere south of his throat. Instead he told her the weather had cleared, and she told him about the movie she'd rented. Then they both hung up. — Louise Penny

Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop up my nose, or against any man's metaphor. — William Shakespeare

My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these crazy little knots and then it looks like you curled your hair. It's saved me so much time 'cause on the road you don't have time or plugs to plug your curling iron in. — Sara Bareilles

I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences. — Cate Blanchett

I decided to no longer wonder what would have happened if things had worked out differently. And instead, I would focus on what was in front of me. I would focus on reality instead of asking myself questions about fictions. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten. — Barbara Tuchman

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. — Gerry Mulligan

No, Don Camillo; you didn't exactly steal it. Peppone had two cigars in his pocket. Peppone is a Communist. He believes in sharing things. By skillfully relieving him of one cigar, you only took your fair share. — Giovannino Guareschi

Let us ... quietly accept our times, with the firm conviction that just as much good can be done today as at any time in the past, provided only that we have the will and the way to do it. — Etienne Gilson