Pedres Blanques Quotes & Sayings

I have heard unsavory rumors about you and the umbrella-maker's daughter — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Discussions of the effects of serial publication of Victorian novels on their authors and readers1 usually draw attention to the author's peculiar opportunities for cliff-hanging suspense, as, for instance, when Thackeray has Becky Sharp counter old Sir Pitt's marriage proposal at the end of Vanity Fair's fourth number with the revelation
that she is already married, and the reader must wait a month before the husband's identity is revealed. Or it may be pointed out how the author can modify his story in response to his readers' complaints or recommendations, as when Trollope records in his
Autobiography how he wrote Mrs Proudie out of the Barchester Chronicles after overhearing two clergymen in the Athenaeum complaining of his habit of reintroducing the same characters in his fiction. — Ian Gregor

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980. — Roberta Williams

I feel like the queen of the oven! I am the Queen of all oven-dry! Master of heat! You may now address me as "Your Royal Highness"! — Elizabeth Duivenvoorde

Happy days are not good for learning something; they are good for loosing ourselves, good for escaping from the truths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,. — Claude Martin

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison. — Margaret Fuller