Of Human Bindage Quotes & Sayings

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow. — Colleen McCullough

Sometimes it is good to listen and not say anything. — Bhagya Chandra

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever. — Colin Mochrie

Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it. — Sela Ward

Dinner will be served at the usual time and I am pleased to say there will be no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time. — Kazuo Ishiguro

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. — Jacques Derrida

He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot or starve,kill or be killed,shelter or suffer,procreate or count for nothing-has clarified his thinking,purged him of politics and its constant search for compromise. — Edmund Morris

I have a very feminine voice when I write, a very womanly point of view. My last name feels strong and powerful. To me, it's almost a bit masculine. I like the dichotomy of the two. Two sides perfectly represented within my name. — Banks

If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though. — Michel Ocelot

I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy. — Patrice O'Neal

You can cower," she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. "But I will stand. — Gwenn Wright

I do think it is the hardest thing in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your own children; and I am sure, if I had been you, I should have tried long ago to do something or other about it. Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain to her the nature of an entail. — Jane Austen