Prototypic Quotes & Sayings

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries. — Alan Furst

On the lawn one late summer day, her pale hair tangled because she'd cry if anyone tried to brush it, spinning around and around until she got so dizzy she fell in a pile of bare feet and dandelions and sundress. — Holly Black

But I think certain death and dismemberment is in my forecast, followed by light rain of guts and flayed skin. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Some girls are pretty and they were born for it but no matter what always be yourself because people might see the wrong side of you — Jenny Han

You didn't die and go to a better place; this was the better place because you weren't dead. Heaven wasn't in the clouds; it was the air in your lungs. — Dennis Lehane

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced. — Bill Sienkiewicz

The death of Baldr is one of the most important moments in the mythology. — John Lindow

It is revealing of the American culture that its prototypic hero is the cowboy: an uneducated, boorish, Victorian migrant agricultural worker. — Trevanian

The prototypic Don Juan, invented early in the XVI century by a Spanish monk, was — George Bernard Shaw

I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else. — Amanda Bynes

Action is the antidote to fear. If you want to play the game, you have to act. There is both an inner game and an outer game in a winning presentation. Did you catch on to the sports metaphor? — Diane Windingland

Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking. — Patricia T. O'Conner

It's often said that we have to save the planet. I'm not so sure. The Earth has been around for almost five billion years, and it has another five billion years to run before it crashes into the sun. As far as we know, modern human beings like us emerged less than two hundred thousand years ago. If you imagine the whole history of the Earth as one year, we showed up at less than one minute to midnight on December 31. The danger is not to the planet, but to the conditions of our own survival on it. The Earth may well conclude that it tried humanity and is not impressed. Bacteria are much less trouble, which may be why they've survived for billions of years. — Ken Robinson

Every day in the human body, some 10 billion cells die and are replaced by new cells. The cells that die do not meet a violent unpremeditated end, but are removed silently and unnoticed by apoptosis, all evidence of their demise eaten by neighbouring cells. This means that apoptosis balances cell division — Nick Lane

It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it. — Dick Smothers