Mga Research Quotes & Sayings

Winder's mind felt even fuzzier than it had done over the past few years, but he was certain about cake. He'd been eating cake, and now there wasn't any. Through the mists he saw it, apparently close but, when he tried to reach it, a long way away.
A certain realization dawned on him.
"Oh," he said.
YES, said Death.
"Not even time to finish my cake?"
NO. THERE IS NO MORE TIME, EVEN FOR CAKE. FOR YOU, THE CAKE IS OVER. YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE. — Terry Pratchett

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case. — Brian O'Driscoll

What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept. — Eleanor Catton

There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people. — Edmund White

A great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing. — Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures. — Said Elias Dawlabani

Great mentorship is priceless. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nobody's going to say hello to me in the street, really, because there'll be someone a bit more famous coming along the street in a minute. That typifies London, really. — Ken Stott

This is a horrid generalization, so I'll probably get hate mail from stockbrokers. I would have been forced to get back to work, and would have been less accustomed to being in touch with my feelings and allowing my feelings to drive my decisions and behavior. — William Mapother

You know, for someone so alpha you really are a gossip queen. — Samantha Young

What I love about film scoring is that all the answers are in the story. You just need to get in tune with the story and realize it musically. — Joseph Trapanese

As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally. — Eric Roberts

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

People are always surprised by how much I love to eat. I guess I don't look like I eat that much, but I can put it away. — Teri Hatcher