Minardi Salon Quotes & Sayings

POPPY (standing up to Paul): I see family life as invading everyone's privacy and saying whatever I feel and treating everyone as they're treasured because they're my family and thus special as compared to the rest of the world. I see a good family as loud and frantic and intrusive. — Bijou Hunter

Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration. — Hermann Hesse

It is like confessing to a murder. — Charles Darwin

I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy — Andrew Flintoff

For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce.
... how to set yourself spinning? — Annie Dillard

A connoisseur of woe needs fresh worries from time to time, or he will become complacent. — Peter Mayle

Seriously," said Kami, her voice faint. "I think I left the oven on at home. Or the iron. Possibly both. — Sarah Rees Brennan

You couldn't leave words lying around where our enemies might find them. — Margaret Atwood

I've changed in my sympathies since I've become a mother myself. In high school I went through a period where I was close with my mom and had to break with her in order to find myself and come back. Since that was my experience, that's often what happens in my books. — Sarah Dessen

I am awakened each dawn
Increasingly to fear ... — Philip Larkin

The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead. — James Surowiecki