Mary Horowitz Quotes & Sayings

Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Lykurgus, and they are stern laws. They have schooled us to scorn the life of leisure, which this rich land of ours would bestow upon us if we wished, and instead to enroll ourselves in the academy of discipline and sacrifice. Guided by these laws, our fathers for twenty generations have breathed the blessed air of freedom and have paid the bill in full when it was presented. We, their sons, can do no less. — Steven Pressfield

When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers it's coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I've nothing to write. — Marian Keyes

There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together. — Feist

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above. — Fay Wray

Only thing your DNA thinks about is reproducing itself. — Dave Barry

If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait. — Diana Gabaldon

Every man's in his own hands, with a little help from his brothers. — Janet Morris

Belief in the liberating power of knowledge has become the ruling illusion of modern humankind. Most want to believe that some kind of explanation or understanding will deliver them from their conflicts. Yet being divided from yourself goes with being self-aware. This is the truth in the Genesis myth: the Fall is not an event at the beginning of history but the intrinsic condition of self-conscious beings. — John Gray

There isn't a doubt in my mind that we could be perfect for each others life, Sydney. It's our lives that aren't perfect for us. — Colleen Hoover

It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well. — Fuzzy Zoeller

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind. — P. Chidambaram