Precomputer Navigator Quotes & Sayings

Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger. — John Waters

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days. — Alan Furst

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence. — Terry Pratchett

I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City. — Kim Dickens

When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail. — William Cobbett

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately. — Lara Stone

For me, selfishly, Toronto is my favorite city in the world. It's the greatest city and you have the whole world here. — Kristen Hager

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten? — Ralph Waldo Emerson