Michiels Fox Quotes & Sayings

He just seemed menacing. Like he could slit your throat, then sit down, prop his feet on your corpse, and eat a sandwich. — Dianne Duvall

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) -to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors. — Enid Bagnold

She could look at him forever. She could spend her life watching him just blink and breathe that near to her. — Veronica Rossi

she'd forgiven him a hundred times over. — G.A. Aiken

Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances ... If Churchill had had a speech write in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today. — James C. Humes

I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle. — Pankaj Mishra

Save Gas, Fart in a Jar. — Gillian Flynn

We have a funny sort of love/hate relationship with critics because, unfortunately, in the art/commerce dance that we do, they drive people to the restaurant. Regardless of sometimes how well we prepare the food, if people don't know that we're out there, if someone isn't talking about us, you guys aren't coming. — Wylie Dufresne

You ... you loved her, didn't you, Pa?"
Theodore sighed, and kept staring at the horses' rumps.
"Oh, I loved her, all right," he answered. "A man sometimes can't help lovin' a woman, even if she's the wrong one. — LaVyrle Spencer

Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man. — Richard Llewellyn

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer. — Henri Matisse

We move like a platoon of silhouettes
balancing sledge hammers on our heads,
unaware our shadows have untied
from us, wandered off
& gotten lost. — Yusef Komunyakaa

Honesty is easier when you have no face and no real name. And honesty, for me, is very easy on paper. — Katherine Reay

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be. — Donald O. Clifton