Lysbeth Anderson Quotes & Sayings

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from. — Penelope Lively

Never leave yourself open to regret Grace. We can only make a decision when we know the choices we are faced with. If we shy away, turn our backs and hide, we will simply never know. And that is when you end up old and wondering and regretting. Live a life of hope. Don't live a life of regret. — Hazel Gaynor

I don't need much coaxing. — Carla Bley

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him. — Daniel Pinkwater

A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the stress of the structure underneath its paint — Amy Efaw

Places changing and people with them, dreams shifting ever further beyond reach. — Ian Rankin

The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers. — Desmond Morris

words are but pictures of our thoughts — John Dryden

I wouldn't mind dispatching all 3 of my room mates vile felines in this apartment. Nasty beasts. I'm just afraid I wouldn't be able to sell "curiosity" as a serial killer. — Geoffrey Hill

He was so pretty I wanted to frame him and put him on my nightstand in a totally non-creepy, non-Hannibal Lector skin-suit-wearing kind of way. — Tara Sivec

In this century, we are about to enter interplanetary civilization.
In order to survive, we need to go beyond neoclassical economics definition.
We define it as interplanomics. — Toba Beta

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others. — Martha Beck

I'll tell you what I think defines greatness. The ability and willingness to perform in extraordinary ways. — William Kent Krueger

The most important lesson is probably to spend less than you earn. — Derek Sivers