Letters Of Sylvia Plath Quotes & Sayings

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung. — Toby Young

To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all. — Emily Gould

Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level. — Vladimir Putin

The energy of our thoughts, words, actions, and emotions collectively create the frequency of our vibrational aura. — Alaric Hutchinson

But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right horizontally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew. — Sylvia Plath

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam. — Sylvia Plath

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good. — Sylvia Plath

Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent."
"Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But ... she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to. — Libba Bray

Nothing is over yet, she told herself. The cat's still inside. — Emily St. John Mandel

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn. — Euripides

If the benefits of Christ's work (justification, reconciliation, adoption, and so on) are abstracted from Christ himself, and the proclamation of the gospel is made in terms of what it offers rather than in terms of Christ himself, the question naturally arises: To whom can I offer these benefits? — Sinclair B. Ferguson

I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best. — Bob Dylan

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist. — Chris Brown

If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be. — Taylor Swift

I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. But an English major who knew shorthand would be something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter. The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters. — Sylvia Plath

They were deeply in love. Smitten. At their age. Sad. — Brent Weeks

Maybe a mouse gets to thinking pretty early on how the whole world is run by these enormous feet. Well, from where I sit, I figure the world is run by one thing and this one thing only. Panic with a dog-face, devil-face, hag-face, whore-face, panic in capital letters with no face at all - it's the same Johnny Panic, awake or asleep. — Sylvia Plath