Nodelman Scott Quotes & Sayings

Life is duty and obligation, therefore love, too, is a duty. It's as if God sent it to me,' she said, looking up at the sky, 'and told me to love.'
p. 265 — Ivan Goncharov

God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club. — Gypsy Rose Lee

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. — Tom Stoppard

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. — Victor Hugo

Practice makes permentant, never perfection, but perfection is a goal to strive for. — Jordan Mak

There is more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy. — William Shakespeare

I do not like people touching my underwear. That's just weird! I travel with a washer and dryer, and I like cooking on the bus, too. — Carrie Underwood

I love treason but hate a traitor. — Gaius Julius Caesar

Live the wonderful life that is in you. — Oscar Wilde

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. — Lawrence Durrell

For Liz, all American men were divided into two classes: those who treated you as if you were a frail old lady, and those who treated you as if you were just frail. — Josephine Tey

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope. — Peter Nivio Zarlenga

My talent is looking into a woman's eyes and instinctively knowing what I need to. If she's lonely or bored; neglected or abused; timid or adventurous; satisfied or confused; looking to recapture the past or re-invent the present; making plans for tomorrow or merely concerned about tonight. I discover what a woman is looking for and promise it to her. If all she wants is a good time, she gets everything. If she wants more, I lie and take what she has to give. Then I move on.
— Roy L. Pickering Jr.

The way to be gay is to make other people gay," Miss Lonelyhearts said. "Sleep with me and I'll be one gay dog. — Nathanael West