Quotes & Sayings About Life Bob Ong

The blank page is the canvas on which a writer paints a story. — Stephanie Ayers

I cannot count the days on which I found myself driving abruptly blinded by tears. — Joan Didion

Don't be so sily, Philippa," the marchioness said, "Lord Castleton is an earl. Beggars cannot be choosers." Penelope gritted her teeth at the adage, her mother's favorite when discussing her unmarried daughters' prospects. Pippa turned her blue gaze on her mother. "I was not aware that I was begging. — Sarah MacLean

The key to enjoying wine isn't just to guzzle a lot of expensive wine, it's to learn about wine. — Jen Wilkin

Henry, for heaven's sake! You can't propose when I'm fainting! — Patricia Wentworth

The good husbands understand and offer to help. "All you have to do is ask" they say. But even helpful husbands have to be thanked, their contributions acknowledged, credit given. All those pleases and thank yous. Being grateful takes time and energy. It's often easier to do it yourself. — Bettina Arndt

I knew that Jesus loved me, not because the Bible told me so but because my heart was informed by love. And later, for that same reason, I knew I was attracted to boys. — James Lecesne

None could discern in him the shyness that makes a person so conspicuous among people who know each other well and are bound together by the established echoes of private jokes and by an allusive residue of people's names that to them are alive with special significance, making the newcomer feel as if the magazine story he has started to read had really begun long ago ... and he wonders if they have not deliberately contrived a conversation to which he is a stranger. — Vladimir Nabokov