Preconsidered Quotes & Sayings

I mean what good does it do anyone to kill themselves working, because the worms will get you in the end. — Dorothy Gish

When you're meeting a whole lot of new people and having to do things you're in - I'm in a constant low-level state of anxiety. Which produces adrenaline, and kind of shuts down - there's a difference between short-term, people-based anxiety. And sort of deep, existential, you know, fear, that you feel all the way down to your butthole. And that, I, that's ... that's what I'll have when I'm alone. — David Foster Wallace

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. — Gail Carson Levine

I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding. — Anthony Horowitz

Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different. — Trevor Brooking

Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh. — Kumail Nanjiani

Everything tastes better with quite a lot of butter." "We — Julia Quinn

A reader is the total of all he's read, in addition to all the films and television he's seen. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

Mitch stared at where her hand lay on Blake's crotch and appreciated that his friend didn't comment.

"Please tell me I don't have my hand some place inappropriate." Alana's voice broke. — Eden Summers

The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations. — Mervyn Peake

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born. — Fiona Shaw

Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal — J.M. Barrie