Mottram Architecture Quotes & Sayings

Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's the secret?" is not the question, which is, "Are you having fun?" — Robert Lipsyte

To know one's future is the single most destructive way of ending your life before you've lived it. - Altheon (Betrayal- Fey Court Trilogy) — Cyndi Goodgame

Success," as Winston Churchill once said, "is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. — Amanda Ripley

My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.
(from "Wherein We Enter the Museum") — Kit Reed

Who would you be if you'd never been wounded? How would you act if you didn't have a desperate need for attention or if you didn't fear punishment or if you didn't do what other people expect? You don't have to perform or try to be anything you're not. Why not be the genuine Julie? I love your Julie-ness. — Jackie Macgirvin

Jesus didn't accomplish everything so that you could accomplish nothing. — Bill Johnson

Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours. — Paul Gillmor

I dislike poor teachers. They are criminals to me. I've seen so much cruelty toward children. I've seen so many children not given the opportunity to live up to their potential as human beings. — Pat Conroy

The flash lights irritated the women's eyes, but in the sudden glare their faces, so empty of expression when they had sex, at last came alive, and I saw two bluecollar housewives who had ditched their husbands and aspired to the most bourgeois of lives. — J.G. Ballard

- No one knows why. Perhaps her mind,
ravenous, still insatiable, sensed
that to struggle with the shreds of a voice
must make her artistry subtler, more refined,
more capable of expressing humiliation,
rage, betrayal ...
- Perhaps the opposite. Perhaps her spirit
loathed the unending struggle
to embody itself, to manifest itself, on a stage whose
mechanics, and suffocating customs,
seemed expressly designed to annihilate spirit ...
- I know that in Tosca, in the second act,
when, humiliated, hounded by Scarpia,
she sang Vissi d'arte
- "I lived for art" -
and in torment, bewilderment, at the end she asks,
with a voice reaching
harrowingly for the notes,
"Art has repaid me LIKE THIS? — Frank Bidart

The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. — Joseph Heller

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away. — Mary Beth Whitehead

I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature. — Mary-Louise Parker