Loured Quotes & Sayings

Your General Patton, he refused to arrest the SS because he said it would be silly to get rid of the most intelligent people in Germany. Instead, he packed the Bavarian Provincial Administration full of Nazis. — Ayelet Waldman

In "Shadow of a Doubt," I was trying to describe the connection you feel when your eyes meet another person's. You project all kinds of things on those eyes, feel them seeing into and past you, sometimes feel the sex behind them too. — Kim Gordon

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities. — Jami Attenberg

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego. — Albert Einstein

There's something profoundly disturbing about watching an old guy eat a sandwich. — Dana Gould

LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children. — Magnus Scheving

Do the books that writers don't write matter? It's easy to forget them, to assume that the apocryphal bibliography must contain nothing but bad ideas, justly abandoned projects, embarrassing first thoughts. It needn't be so: first thoughts are often best, cheeringly rehabilitated by third thoughts after they've been loured at by seconds. Besides, an idea isn't always abandoned because it fails some quality control test. The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time — Julian Barnes

I'm like most women. I want a steamy romance novel, or something sweet and tender." "I knew the romance genre was big, especially with women, but I never really understood why." "Seriously? Let's just say that the next best thing to having sex, is reading about people having sex. If you're not able to snag any for yourself, you damn sure want to be reading about two people who have guaranteed odds at doing the deed. — Lustful Desires Bundle

It's only as bad as you make it. — Benjamin J. Carey

It is easy to write unthinking music. — George Crumb

No matter where he went in this wide world, his fears went with him. — George R R Martin

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Be beautiful for yourself, Janie. And only if you want to. If a man is worthy of you, he'll see more beauty in who you are than in what you look like. — Penny Reid

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness. — Rand Olson