Monsordo Quotes & Sayings

The air is still and freezing cold. The sky is a perfect, pale blue. The sun has just risen, weak and watery-looking, like it has just spilled itself over the horizon and it's too lazy to clean itself up. — Lauren Oliver

I don't want to go out there and show up. I hate losing. Everybody hates losing. But I hate losing. — Fred Funk

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. — Francis Bacon

In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there. — Andie MacDowell

I believe deeply that jazz is still a very vital music that has much to say, not just to eggheads, or whatever the musical equivalent of an egghead is, but to ordinary people. — Terry Teachout

Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours. — Elizabeth McCracken

The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love. — Cole Porter

Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life. — Alice Morse Earle

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

That person who declares that there is always something wrong is always doing something to make things wrong. — Christian D. Larson

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her. — Saint Augustine

Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this conviction was completely independent of my having ever written anything, or being able to imagine ever writing anything, that I thought anyone would like to read. — Elif Batuman

A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself. — Alice Hoffman

Have you lost your fucking mind? — Bree Dahlia