Margot Phaneuf Quotes & Sayings

Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery. — Lynn Freed

The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people — Reid Hoffman

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do. — Marilyn Manson

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored! — Eckhart Tolle

Tom Byron is my friend. JJ Michaels is my friend. I haven't heard from him. I don't know what he believes. A couple of other have called but I haven't called them back. — Marc Wallice

His beauty has always maddened me. I think I idealize him in my mind when I'm not with him; but then when I see him again I'm overcome. — Anne Rice

For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does! — Nancy Reagan

Counting on each other became automatic. When I found a sweater in Texas I wanted, I learned to buy two, which was easier than seeing the look of disappointment on Caroline's face when I returned home with only one. When she went out from the boathouse on a windy day, she gave me her schedule in advance, which assuaged her worst-case scenario of flipping the boat, being hit on the head by an oar, and leaving Lucille stranded at home. I still have my set of keys to her house, to locks and doors that no longer exist, and I keep them in my glove compartment, where they have been moved from one car to another in the past couple of years. Someday I will throw them in the Charles, where I lost the seat to her boat and so much else. — Gail Caldwell

She did not believe he was a monster. He was not a monster, to her. Probably he had some endearing trait: he whistled, offkey, in the shower, he had a yen for truffles, he called his dog Liebchen and made it sit up for little pieces of raw steak. How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation. — Margaret Atwood

When you're a child - and my understanding of it is very basic - but when you're a very young child, the stimuli around you prompt your brain to form synapses. Once they're there, they're there, but if they don't form by a certain age, they're not going to. — Ron Currie Jr.