Machard Gramont Quotes & Sayings

Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't ( ... ) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories. — Douglas Coupland

What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one. — Annie Proulx

I thought Bones looked like a little slice of heaven, but you're the whole cake, aren't you, sugar? — Jeaniene Frost

Husband and wife seems like a less interesting and committed relationship than Holden and Naomi — James S.A. Corey

Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy. — Elbert Hubbard

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet? — Felix J. Palma

You do not need to solve problems, you just need to outgrow them. — Debasish Mridha

I'm liberal, but I watch the three majors. Obviously I watch MSNBC, also CNN and Fox, which is what I would call ridiculously to the right. — Jerry Springer

If we want to write, it makes sense to read - and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would. — Francine Prose

Fearing, you climbed the mountain. Fearing, you faced its dangers. And fearing, you went on. That is real bravery, Rowan. Only fools do not fear. Sheba knew that. Sheba knew everything all along. — Emily Rodda

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it. — Alexander Lowen

Where there's bluster, thinks Luisa, there's duplicity — David Mitchell

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played. — Brandi Chastain

Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow. — Bill Vaughan

Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana