Olwen Catherine Quotes & Sayings

No one who cooks cooks alone. — Laurie Colwin

likely explanation for Elfriede's connection to Kurban Said first presented itself to me a few weeks after I visited the castle. — Tom Reiss

How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of mood and feeling; they have just to work at something, and when the evening comes, they have earned their wages, and they are free to rest and enjoy themselves. What an insane thing it is to make literature one's only means of support! When the most trivial accident may at any time prove fatal to one's power of work for weeks or months. No, that is the unpardonable sin! To make a trade of an art! I am rightly served for attempting such a brutal folly. — George Gissing

No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again. — Charles R. Swindoll

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. — Annie Dillard

Do not panic but pray when you face any problem. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I was doing my little stand up shtick, the one I did for pretty girls, so they'd like me quickly and wouldn't try too hard to actually get to know me beyond my role as wisecracking Cameron, the orphan. Maybe it was a little like flirting, but also a kind of protection: Don't get too close; I'm just jokes with substance. — Emily M. Danforth

[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep. — Kate Clinton

Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day. — Sam Lipsyte

A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else. — Patrick DeWitt

I walked slowly, my eyes focused on the gravel beneath me. I didn't know where I was going, not that I cared. I just needed to get away. Soon enough, I'd find my way home. I had to believe that.
There was a loud crackling noise in the sky as the thunder rolled through the clouds. I threw my head back, admiring the storm above. The sky was dark with flashes of white sparking throughout with each bolt of lightening following behind the thunder. It was beautiful. "After the storm, you will find peace." I smiled as the sound boomed through the quiet neighborhood. And in that moment I felt at one with the storm as the pain inside of me slowly began to seep out. — Nicole Sobon

As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple. — Marisha Pessl