Pieczone Quotes & Sayings

In 1948, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered themselves to be a very important person. At that point, 12 percent said yes. The same question was asked in 2003, and this time it wasn't 12 percent who considered themselves very important, it was 80 percent. — David Brooks

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow. — Claudia Rankine

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. — Pancho Villa

I told them he hit on me and that I was showing him my wrestling moves. I think they maybe believed it." I pull on my seat belt and roll down the window even though it's cold. I need to be able to smell for pixies. "We can't leave until everyone's out. I want to be sure nothing happens." "Did they really believe you Devyn asks.
My breath whooshes out with the reality of it and I adjust my previous statement. "I don't think so."
"Well there's another lovely complication." Devyn groans. — Carrie Jones

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. — George Stephen

Those who cling to the shadows will always hate and despise the light. — Seth Adam Smith

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. — George Orwell

Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of fundamental craft tools that are essential for any genre-including nonfiction. — Georgia Heard

The only person that I want to love me is my wife. — Peter Capaldi

You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her. — Sue Monk Kidd

By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing
which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring. — Edward Albee

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that. — Tom Clancy