Privitera Quotes & Sayings

The floor is made of condensed air, so we are suspended above a mile vertical drop. — Pierce Brown

The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates

Derek cuddled his daughter against his shoulder and spoke in a mixture of baby words and cockney, a language only she seemed to understand. — Lisa Kleypas

Under the trees several pheasants lay about, their rich plumage dabbled with blood; some were dead, some feebly twitching a wing, some staring up at the sky, some pulsating quickly, some contorted, some stretched out - all of them writhing in agony except the fortunate ones whose tortures had ended during the night by the inability of nature to bear more. With the impulse of a soul who could feel for kindred sufferers as much as for herself, Tess's first thought was to put the still living birds out of their torture, and to this end with her own hands she broke the necks of as many as she could find, leaving them to lie where she had found them till the gamekeepers should come, as they probably would come, to look for them a second time. "Poor darlings - to suppose myself the most miserable being on earth in the sight o' such misery as yours!" she exclaimed, her tears running down as she killed the birds tenderly. — Thomas Hardy

Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace. — Diana Wynne Jones

The people on Baywatch were about as nice a group of people as I had ever worked with. — Michael Bergin

You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper. — Randy Pausch

I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do. — Jimmy Wales

Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and a whole lot of shit for fertilizer. — Karen Marie Moning

Testifying for Dr. Privitera ... To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy. — Rose Bird

He arches his back because when you forgive, the body says, Thank God. — Edmond Manning

We just have to have faith. The good Lord wouldn't give us more than we could bear. — Jim Butcher

The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone. — Arthur C. Clarke

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead
and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and then they would be honest so much earlier. — Mark Twain

I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks. — Ian Rankin

With a thick note of disbelief in her voice, Jilly said, 'You went through the wall to California?'
[Dylan] 'Yeah. Why not? Where'd you think we went-Narnia? Oz? Middle Earth? California's weirder than any of those places, anyway.'
Page 246 — Dean Koontz