Pulled Under Goodreads Quotes & Sayings

Best thing to do when you make a mistake, is make it right. Apologize. — Ruby Shae

was a meticulous guy, right? — Lee Child

Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.
The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be like, and the Rand Corporation will tell you what the twenty-first century will be like. I don't recommend that you turn to the writers of fiction for such information. It's none of their business. All they're trying to do is tell you what they're like, and what you're like
what's going on
what the weather is now, today, this moment, the rain, the sunlight, look! Open your eyes; listen, listen. That is what the novelists say. But they don't tell you what you will see and hear. All they can tell you is what they have seen and heard, in their time in this world, a third of it spent in sleep and dreaming another third of it spent in telling lies. [Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness] — Ursula K. Le Guin

Embrace your struggles. They are making you the person you were meant to be. — Avijeet Das

Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns. — Michael Drayton

The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don't listen to those rules about face shape. — Philip Treacy

Marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man's diet.' I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if it's 3 in the morning. — T. J. Thyne

I was just thinking about how my grandparents, who raised me, would be considered "white trash," whatever that means - mostly for being racists, I'd say. And how, as a child, I wanted to be like them, and identified with them culturally. — Shane McCrae

Officer down. Officer down."
"I'm an officer now, am I? That's insult to injury. — J.D. Robb

Beck with a determined look in my eye. — James Patterson

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema. — Giovanni Ribisi

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor. — Harrison Ford

Odd is a compliment," he continued, his eyes twinkling, "whereas weird is an insult. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney