Makayele Quotes & Sayings

I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used to be frightened only one night a week but now I'm frightened of every performance. I mean really frightened. — Glenda Jackson

It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over. — Laurie Colwin

I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My goal is usually 10 pages a day. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but by the end of the week, I aim for at least 10,000 words. — Michelle Gagnon

And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears. — Vladimir Nabokov

This, the only occasion in the Iliad when furious Achilles smiles serves as a bittersweet reminder of the difference real leadership could have made to the events of the Iliad. Agamemnon's panicked prize-grabbing in Book One and even Nestor's rambling "authority" pale beside Achilles' instinctive and absolute command of himself and the dangers of this occasion. — Caroline Alexander

Though the views of members of the House and Senate are as divergent as the people we represent, we bear the responsibility to work through our political differences and get things done. That's our job. — Martha Roby

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up. — Maxim Gorky

Lukas grinned at me. I didn't know how badass you are. That's kind of hot. — Lee Nichols

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. — Tommy Smothers