Od202 Quotes & Sayings

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing. — James Salter

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married. — Alec Baldwin

A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason. — Daniela Ruah

How big are souls anyway? asked Coraline.
The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall, saying nothing. She picked at her teeth with a long crimson-varnished fingernail, then she tapped the finger, gently, tap-tap-tap against the polished black surface of her black button eyes. — Neil Gaiman

I love America," he'd tell us. We were going to make a million dollars manufacturing objects we had seen in dreams that night. — Charles Simic

Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other. — Liu Xiang

Sex problems never are, they are troubles of the heart. — John Diamond

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure. — Henry Fielding

He thought he had learned pain, but he would learn it again and again, all his life, and forget none of it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

From Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story, re: the travel book boom of the 1970s
Surprisingly, none of the new developments in travel publishing came from established companies. The changes in the air seemed to completely bypass them and when they did wake up to the upsurge in growth it was too late -- they'd been overtaken. Much the same happened a decade later with computer books. Just as the travel book explosion was led by travelers who got into publishing rather than publishers getting into travel, so the computer book explosion was led by computer geeks getting into publishing. The regular publishers never saw it coming. — Tony Wheeler