Petraccaro Debra Quotes & Sayings

It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice. — Adolf Anderssen

I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy. — Prabal Gurung

I write to exist in a nonexistent space. — Molly

Our thoughts of literary renaissance should always center themselves on the removal of superstition, meanness, indignity and ignorance. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

It's a fundamental aspect of the free enterprise system and economics: If there's no penalty associated with increased costs, why not lay on increased costs? — John McCain

Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person. — Stedman Graham

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it. — Peter Carey

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you? — J. A. Jance

I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation. — Arthur Quiller-Couch

Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love. — Miyamoto Musashi

Have a scaffold erected in the square. We shall hang a traitor or two before dinner. And perhaps afterwards as well." - Princess Karena — Thaddeus White

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears. — Richard Russo

Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected. — Satish Kumar

I ain't never preyed on the weak. I ain't never gone and picked on a guy that I knew I could beat up, even as a kid. People wanna make me seem like I'm [that] type of guy. — Suge Knight

I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block. — Diana Gabaldon