Maledicta Press Quotes & Sayings

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be. — Natalie Portman

I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick! — Candy Crowley

The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of perpetual unrest. — Marquis De Sade

I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is. — Ted Bell

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity ... — Eleanor Roosevelt

It was as if God had become not only the object of my praise and thanksgiving but my creative partner as well. — David Brazzeal

(Actually now I'm remembering that the goodbye chow isn't spelled that way. It's ciao or something weird like that. It's Italian, right? But I'm not an Italian gypsy, I'm a hungry gypsy. So spelling it chow makes total sense.) — Wendelin Van Draanen

Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to load. — Ted Kooser

As well as depressing, but each day I feel like I'm making a small difference. We walked a kid out of prison last week. His parents were waiting by the gate, and everyone was in tears, including me. FYI - one — John Grisham

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living. — Robert Louis Stevenson

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens ... We roamed the countryside. — William Moseley

she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. — Lewis Carroll