Permissions Manager Quotes & Sayings

Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society. — Honore De Balzac

I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors. — James Thayer

Big L scared me to death. When I heard that on tape, I was scared to death. I was like there's no way I can compete if this is what I gotta compete with. — Nas

But postal inspectors also solved crimes. James Holbook's Ten Years Among the Mail Bags; or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department, published in 1855, became a best seller and is thought to have helped inspire the modern detective novel, with its tales of mail robbers and malefactors who tried to use the public mails for nefarious purposes. "A mail bag is an epitome of human life,"' Holbrook wrote in the opening section of his book. "All the elements which go to form the happiness or misery of individuals--the raw material so to speak, of human hopes and fears--here exist in a chaotic state." Someone had to protect it. — Devin Leonard

I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known. — William Shatner

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect! — Jane Porter

Luce: But I thought you said I should stay away from the hard cases.
Arriane: Rule number two - don't listen to me! — Lauren Kate

A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind. — John Dryden