Michael Wilding Quotes & Sayings

He had had a beautiful and eager young wife and another man had taken her away from him and had fathered his child, and all he had done was to walk away, leaving her in possession of everything he owned, and crawl into a hole in the slums and lie there like a wounded animal and let his intellect bleed away into pious drivel and his strength bleed away into weakness. And he had been good. But his goodness had told me nothing except that I could not live by it. My new father, however, had not been good. He had cuckolded a friend, betrayed a wife, taken a bride, driven a man, though unwittingly, to death. But he had done good. — Robert Penn Warren

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear ... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head. — Tom Brady

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music. — Jan Hammer

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point. — Raymond Chandler

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either. — Lynn Davies

I watch the willows weep and cannot breathe. — Laura Elizabeth Woollett

But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that. — Elizabeth Berg

Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability. — S. Jay Olshansky

I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader. — Byron Katie

So now you have it. The plot, the whole plot, and nothing but the plot. — Elizabeth Peters

I will not stand idly when anyone gets in the way of the national interest and tries to block the national vision. From where I sit, I can tell you, a president is always as strong as she wants to be. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I think a bad place for a fire would be the factory where they make those trick candles. — Demetri Martin

Midi is my hobby. — J.J. Johnson