Love Bites Ellen Schreiber Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and so I gave up my job and moved to Paris at twenty-eight. I just held my breath and jumped. I didn't even look to see if there was water in the pool. — Mavis Gallant

Civilization has its roots in the soil. — Charles Kellogg

I think romance is harder in the digital or postdigital age or whatever we're supposed to call it. Love is harder. — Kate Klise

Under (Lyndon) Johnson, the Senate functions like a Greek tragedy. All the action takes place offstage, before the play begins. Nothing is left for the participants but the enactment of their prescribed roles. — Bobby Baker

There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire. — Andrew Carnegie

In choosing a bare bones existence, we are enriched, and can redefine success as an internal process rather than an outward display of wealth and power. — Kathleen Norris

A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love — Philip Larkin

I want labor to be the point, because everything in our lives is miraculously made with no idea of how it's done. As an active and critical consumer, and as someone who has attempted to make the flawless and failed, I wanted a transparency of construction here. If we know how it is made and how it falls apart, we will know how to rebuild it. — Tom Sachs

We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on the actors. You can't wash away your life's history, which is written on your face, unless you get a facelift. — Pirjo Honkasalo

I always use the analogy that when you go to a jeans store and put on a new pair of jeans, it's a pair of jeans and they feel different; so, when you're dealing with these sort of costumes it's a very big departure and really does make you feel quite different. But it's wonderful. — Eric Bana

When a child is in crisis, parents should have a role and a voice. They should be the first to help, not the last to know. — George W. Bush

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. — Jeanette Winterson

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. — Charles Horton Cooley

There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women. — Laura Carmichael

Darzee was a feather-brained little fellow who could never hold more than one idea at a time in his head. — Rudyard Kipling