Makingly Quotes & Sayings

Is love constant for you? Have you ever loved a woman? A person you love as much as you hate the hold they have on you? — Hannah Kent

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. — Moby

And Pride and Prejudice was the most stunning, bite-your-hand romance ever, the kind that stared straight into Jane's soul and made her shudder. — Shannon Hale

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess. — Richard Reti

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked. — Alex Cox

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. — Tomas Transtromer

We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time. — Theodore Zeldin

My work is frequently described as cold, which is baffling, since it seems to me embarrassingly, shame-makingly, scandalously warm. I find my work filled with sentiment, and I can't imagine why people find it cold. — John Banville

I don't think that incident necessarily defines you as bad. I think it makes you human. And I believe you would have stopped yourself. I think that's what makes a person good. Not that you make mistakes, but that you recognize them. You feel remorse for them. You want to correct them and do better. — Veronica Rossi

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it. — Norman Rockwell