Pieces Atl Quotes & Sayings

She might look like a dream and taste like dessert, but I knew there was a lot of tart underneath that pretty outer shell. — Jay Crownover

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been. — Ben Elton

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart. — William Shakespeare

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading. — Harper Lee

I was especially happy when, going to bed and covering myself with a blanket, I began, alone now, in the most complete solitude, with no people moving around and not a single sound from them, to re-create life in a different key. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well. — Plato

Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts. — Richard Eyre

The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country. — Benjamin Franklin

I never told you
How I longed to kiss away your every bruise
until there was no evidence
No ghosts of your own suffering
To put your pieces back together
Seal the cracks
Vanish them like they never were
And never, ever
Leave a scar"

"I never told you
I would take your pain if I could
I would drink it down
And take my comfort
In making you ache a little less
For a little while
Did I?
I'll never know because I never told you that I loved you — Emma Scott

I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step. — Terry Goodkind

Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving ... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. — Nicholas Serota