Lifeboat 12 Book Quotes & Sayings

You are where I unlock myself, where I say that I have often put down my wooden spoon to stare out the kitchen window to see the men I thought were magic for their story-telling or their way of walking, or the ones I was so strongly sexually attracted to, even though they weren't good people - at least not for me. — Elizabeth Berg

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ... It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you. — Twyla Tharp

Traveling to the past or the future will not help you now. — James Altucher

Dislike required energy and a good memory for slights; geniality was so much less demanding, and at the end of the day felt better too. — Alexander McCall Smith

I won't fuck around," he said. "Just so you know. I nearly lost you. I won't risk that again. I told you before I'd never be a one-woman man, but I was wrong. — Joanna Wylde

Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus. — Joe Frazier

My father was a restaurant man, laundry man in his lifetime. And I've often wondered how and why did I become an actor? Where did I get the so-called talent to express myself? And I look back, and I see that my mother was very animated. I can remember that she used to, what she called 'bei zhu.' — James Hong

Don't let people treat you like you're stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is. — Sinbad

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. — Ronald Reagan

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. — Alexandre Dumas

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle! — Azzedine Alaia

My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt. — William Styron