Lukens Quotes & Sayings

As a nonfiction writer you must get on the plane. If the subject interests you, go after it, even if it's in the next county or the next state or the next country. It's not going to come looking for you. Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.--William Zinsser — Meg Lukens Noonan

We fought about it endlessly. He even went as far as to set up meetings with prominent girls in our social circle, attempting to make me a one woman man with a purposeful relationship. When I would bed these girls and leave them, Grandfather finally gave up. — Sadie Grubor

Buzz Lukens took that fateful step ... — Dan Quayle

Frank's gone!" Trevor shouted. "He ran. When are you going to get that through your head?! — Mark Lukens

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion. — Jean Rhys

I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them. — Harland Williams

He who fights the destinies to stay with you,
He who finds his life better beside you, and clings to you despite of all the events,
He who hates your sadness, and tires himself to put a smile on your face,
He who cries when you're away before smiling when you're here,
But God didn't decide that you'd stay with them despite of all this strugle,
Is the only one who deserves immortality in your memory. — Nizar Qabbani

He could write an epic poem about her ass. And all the ways he wanted to defile it. — R.G. Alexander

We will eat the figs of our own tree, and the grapes of our own garden. — Anne Rice

We think back through our mothers and grandmothers, if we are women. — Virginia Woolf

No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we (anyone) get through adolescence without some form of song? Song is only a version of lyric poetry that is carried more by melody than by internal coherence and unity. but lyric and song - they are the same. — Gregory Orr

I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful. — Naveen Andrews

A Czech could either work for the Germans, or work for the Germans. — Mariusz Szczygiel

At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief - or do they hound you till the bitter end? — Andre Aciman

to plan for a return to the Arctic. One — Hampton Sides

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years. — Jordan Knight

In every character that you play ... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that. — Ilana Glazer

Life ain't all blow jobs and ice cream. Sometimes it's a shit sandwich and a kick in the nuts. — Matt Cole