Pretnders Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it. — Cary Fowler

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be. — Mel Torme

It's not that I'm confident, but I feel it's okay for me to continue taking photos. — Rinko Kawauchi

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight' ... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.' — Warren Farrell

There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do. — Gina McKee

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders. — Robert Townsend

Thus, his ambition led him not to relieve his patients' madness, but to exasperate it - to let it breathe with a life of its own. And this he did in certain ways that wholly eradicated what human attributes remained in these people. But sometimes that peculiar magic he saw in their eyes would seem to fade, and then he would institute his 'proper treatment,' which consisted of putting them through a battery of hellish ordeals intended to loosen their attachment to the world of humanity and to project them further into the realm of the 'silent, staring universe' where the insanity of the infinite might work a rather paradoxical cure. The result was something as pathetic as a puppet and as exalted as the stars, something at once dead and never dying, a thing utterly without destiny and thus imperishable, forever consigned to that abysmal vacuity which is the essence of all that is immortal. — Thomas Ligotti

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one — Stephen King

Sometimes I miss the dark. — Seanan McGuire

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit. — Lauren Oliver

John Laroche: You know why I like plants?
Susan Orlean: Nuh uh.
John Laroche: Because they're so mutable. Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.
Susan Orlean: [pause] Yeah but it's easier for plants. I mean they have no memory. They just move on to whatever's next. With a person though, adapting almost shameful. It's like running away. — Charlie Kaufman

I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough. — Lee Daniels

I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest. — James Russell Lowell