Maugeri Quotes & Sayings

In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals. — Kate Bernheimer

You are a shadow of the person you are following or understudying — Ikechukwu Joseph

I'm never uncomfortable being naked. I don't have a problem with my body. — Heidi Klum

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action. — Edward Hirsch

Gold is the corpse of value... — Neal Stephenson

Recently started flat ironing my ball hair. Come on ladies, you know how it is; if you have curly hair you just want straight hair. — Daniel Tosh

For the longest time I was so sick I didn't have the strength or inclination to read, but looking at my books stacked up on the bedside table was comforting, like having old friends sitting in the room with me, friends who didn't require anything of me, friends who brought me great pleasure just with their presence, waiting until I could engage with them again.... bibliophiles know the inanimate pleasure of the friendship with books. — Lindsey O'Connor

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to. — Elizabeth Edwards

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. — John Le Carre

Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time. — Elizabeth Taylor

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. — Gore Vidal