Poate Quotes & Sayings

Major change is never applauded until your numbers prove it. — Anonymous

The faces stood out, separate, lonely, no two alike. Behind each, there were the years of a life lived or half over, effort, hope and an attempt, honest or dishonest, but an attempt. It had left on all a single mark in common: on lips smiling with malice, on lips loose with renunciation, on lips tight with uncertain dignity - on all - the mark of suffering. — Ayn Rand

What then of death? Is not the taps of death but the first call to the reveille of eternal life?"8 — Michael Keane

Curiosity is the prime requisite of the novelist. — Lucy Poate Stebbins

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. — Howard Aiken

It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio. — Kenny Rogers

USA. The land of the free; where you accent didn't matter. But he supposed everybody related to it; movies, TV, fat-food, outlets, you grew up with it. Cultural imperialism. Yet no wonder everybody increasingly hated it: it was stupid, self-serving and so in-your-face that it was setting itself up to be despised — Irvine Welsh

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization. — Leni Zumas

I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since ... I will come within a pint of wine. — Richard Steele

Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry. — Lucy Poate Stebbins

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when ... — Pablo Neruda

Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman. — Rachel Stevens

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing ... — Lucy Poate Stebbins

Am inteles ca un om poate avea totul neavand nimic si nimic avand totul. — Mihai Eminescu