Miomir Dragas Quotes & Sayings

The only part I miss about driving is driving. That's it. I don't miss all the other stuff that goes along with it, all the other PR stuff. Anybody, when they quit driving, they miss the driving part. — Kyle Petty

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well. — Annie Leibovitz

From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop he fashions a compelling view of the Chicago Algren once called 'the dark city.' There's a unique quality to his essays which manage to be broodingly meditative even as their narrative drive keeps you turning pages. — Stuart Dybek

Ove is the sort of man who checks the status of all things by giving them a good kick. He — Fredrik Backman

I know what women look good in. I don't think the rules ever change. — Michael Kors

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British. — Naveen Andrews

Even later, I will come to doubt whether I ever really believed such a book would not be found
maybe my words were for all of them, that they might discover themselves, and discover me. — Justin Torres

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys. — Bruce Sterling

I was just a friendly thirty-four-year-old TV actress looking for a boyfriend who didn't have a neck tattoo. — Mindy Kaling

Around 1980, I'd been writing short stories, all to no success; so I wrote a fan letter to Stephen King and asked "How long should it take an aspiring writer to either get published or know when to give up?" Lo and behold, King wrote back to me in long hand with blue flair pen on 14-inch paper, purveying a very nice, helpful note; in it he said my letter proved a "command of the language," that I should never give up, and that it would take years to succeed, not months. "That's cold comfort but it's the truth." This was the ultimate encouragement for a young writer to be who didn't know shit about the market. I took Mr. King's advice and actually sold my first novel little more than a year later. I'll always be copiously grateful for this advice, and it's the same advice I give aspiring writers now (along with the story of King's reply!). — Edward Lee

I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's to the point now where I look back when pulling into the spot only as a formality. — Willie Geist

A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet's image of man. — Ayn Rand

Woe, woe is me that I am a sinner, that I grieve this blessed God, who is infinite in goodness and grace! — Anonymous

Folks like poor Misty Marie, they're limited, borderline dummies, but nothing enough to get a handicapped parking space. Or get any kind of Special Olympic Games. They just pay the bulk of taxes but get no special menu at the steak house. No oversized bathroom stall. No special seat at the front of the bus. No political lobby. — Chuck Palahniuk

I always wanted to be on a great TV show and in a Broadway show and have a CD out, and the fact that they happened simultaneously is kind of an embarrassment of riches. — Cheyenne Jackson