Petoas Quotes & Sayings

Like most artists, everything I produced was connected to who I was - and so I suffered according to how my work was received. The idea that anyone might be able to detach their personal value from their public output was revolutionary. — Jessie Burton

Learn the rules. And play by the rules. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When you write a story, you are telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story...Your stuff starts out being just for you...but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right, as right as you can...it belongs to anyone who wants to read it, or criticise it. — Stephen King

The sloshing of their hooves in the paddy field that I heard thirty yards away, my car door open for the breeze, the haunting sound I was caught within as if creatures of magnificence were undressing and removing their wings — Michael Ondaatje

In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress. — Gabrielle Giffords

Sometimes in the shadows the view would light up, usually when he was smoking weed, as if the contrast knob of Creation had been messed with just enough to give everything an underglow, a luminous edge, and promise that the night was about to turn epic somehow. — Thomas Pynchon

If its got tires or testicles it's going to give you trouble — P.C. Cast

Martyrdom is meaningless in our age. — John Kennedy Toole

The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things. — Andrew Dominik

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them. — Michael Bassey

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. — John Bolton

Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware. — Brother Lawrence

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard. — Jerzy Kosinski