Madalene Wright Quotes & Sayings

It's been interesting, "Frostpine said casually. "I wanted Daja to get some experience of other smiths'-and other mages'- ways of doing things, if only so she can see mine is best. — Tamora Pierce

It was, possibly, the most potent orgasm I'd ever felt, made dirty and scandalous and all the more intense for taking place at a restaurant table in full view of the owner who was listing the dishes and waxing eloquent on the food he was going to bring out next. — Jasinda Wilder

What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape. — Jules Olitski

That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice ... They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience. — Steve Eisman

A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value. — Walter Pater

I don't think success is complicated; if you do something that works, then it's a success. — Peter Thiel

You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future. — Bret Easton Ellis

I'm a big girl, Finn. — Ridley Pearson

I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air. — Matsuo Basho

Politics
How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?
Yet here's a travelled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war's alarms,
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms! — W.B.Yeats

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness. — John Kenneth Galbraith

It's always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated. — Christian Borle

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene. — Noam Chomsky

A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough. — Morton Blackwell

Let every lion do his duty. — J. P. Morgan