Parrucca Rossa Quotes & Sayings

Singling out "women's fiction" for genre derision never fails to piss me off. Somehow worse when women do it. Case in pt: Editor says crowd-sourcing editorial for romance & erotica not bad idea b/c "no great artistry at stake" Yes, genre fiction not high art. But it's a craft we take seriously, writing for love of storytelling, not writing whatever sells. — Kelley Armstrong

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist. — Steve Earle

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak. — Elfriede Jelinek

You might say that he had lost the gift of evoking the perfumes of life: sea water, the smoke of burning hemlock, and the breasts of women. He had damaged, you might say, the ear's innermost chamber, where we hear the heavy noise of the dragon's tail moving over the dead leaves. — John Cheever

Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi - all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to. — Susan Cain

If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher ... It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong. — Frederick Lenz

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. — William Shenstone

I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion. — William Carlos Williams

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode. — David Alan Basche

Large solid rockets have never been a very good way to build launchers that might have crews on top, especially because of the problems in getting the crew away from a failing launcher. — Henry Spencer

Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood. — Tom DeMarco