Payoff Reviews Quotes & Sayings

So I picked the book up and did my usual 123 test. I don't bother reading the blurb on the back, or the first page - the writer's obviously going to be trying their hardest there, aren't they? It's how they're getting on by page 123 that's the real test. If they're crap at writing or bored with their story then you can bet they won't be making any effort at all by that point. — Siobhan Curham

She'd pulled back her hair to air her neck, just for one second, fanning her flushed cheeks by flapping her other hand. She'd smiled at him and pulled a face at how hot and stuffy the bar was. Miles had thought she was beautiful, the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen, and if you'd told him, in that minute, that he'd be in this beautiful creature's bed tonight, or that in seven years' time he'd be waiting for her at the top of the aisle, he could never have believed you. — Erin Lawless

Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot. — Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much. — P.T. Barnum

He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened;" for — James Allen

Less thinking, more living. — S.R. Crawford

It's not a concert you are seeing, it's a fashion show. — Freddie Mercury

I want people to be inspired! To remember how hard-fought the battle for the vote was, the debt we owe to women who paved the way for this more egalitarian society we live in, how critical it is to use our vote and to be counted. — Sarah Gavron

I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better when they do it; they just look different. — Cate Blanchett

I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again. — Dave Davies

In this life, the proper way of living is to make use of both joy and suffering. They are both merely stimuli that the world presents to us. So by blending them skillfully within you, you can use them in a completely different way. If you want to be steeped in evil, you mustn't forget good. — Fuminori Nakamura