Lorettas Asheville Quotes & Sayings

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls. — John Quincy Adams

I open the gallery door, walk in with that sinking feeling I always have in galleries. It's the carpets that do it to me, the hush, the sanctimoniousness of it all: galleries are too much like churches, there's too much reverence, you feel there should be some genuflecting going on. Also I don't like it that this is where paintings end up, on these neutral-toned walls with the track lighting, sterilized, rendered safe and acceptable. It's as if somebody's been around spraying the paintings with air freshener, to kill the smell. The smell of blood on the wall. — Margaret Atwood

The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why. — J.K. Rowling

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS. — Henry James

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that. — R.L. Stine

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple. — Rita Ora

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. — Langston Hughes

Me and Jaden just figured out that our voices sound like chocolate together. As good as chocolate tastes, it sounds that good. — Willow Smith

Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them. — Giacomo Leopardi