Peshkov Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Just thinking."
"Why start now? — Stacey Kade

The odor of literature as a stopgap, of words piled one upon the other to avoid taking action or to console oneself for being incapable of it. — Rene Daumal

Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence;
Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part.
They taught me to express my deep abhorrence
If I caught anyone preferring Art
To Life and Love and being Pure-in-heart.
I lived with crooks but seldom was molested;
The Pure-in-heart can never be arrested. — W. H. Auden

What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body.
But the possibility of a naked body is something special. — Max Barry

It is difficult to keep the public interested. The public demands new wonders piled on new wonders. Often we don't know where our next marvel is coming from. The supply of strange ideas is not endless. — Donald Barthelme

Worship is not love. — Donald Hall

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it. — Andrew Sullivan

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to. — Chelsea Cain

I've seen petite brides carry a ballgown, and I have also seen plus-size women carry a ballgown, though you wouldn't think so. — Reem Acra

One is a writer, or one is not. — Monique Wittig

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does. — Mignon McLaughlin

People come to films drowned in reality, leaving behind heart failures, cancer, failed marriages, bad jobs, mean bosses, and future sickness. What they need is not happy endings, but proper endings. — Ray Bradbury

Now I see why everybody who plays for him doesn't like him. — Shaquille O'Neal

Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur. — Jacque Fresco

The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity. — Vladimir Nabokov