Putevima Frankopana Quotes & Sayings

I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me. — Anne Enright

And sure, it was three on one. But what a one. — John Green

I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn. — Emma Forrest

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. — Ariel Durant

She would try picturing him in his underwear, but that was even more disturbing since all it did was make her hot and even more nervous ... He had to be the only man alive who could pull off intimidating in his tighty-whities. God, what if all that massive hotness was commando? — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The cooing of pigeons, nesting in the wall outside; shimmering and unexpected like a first hyacinth gently tearing open its nutritious heart to release its flower of sound, mauve and satin-soft, letting into my still dark and shuttered bedroom as through an opened window the warmth, the brightness, the fatigue of a first fine day. — Marcel Proust

There are three kinds of souls, three kinds of prayers. One: I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me lest I rot. Two: Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. Three: Overdraw me, and who cares if I break! Choose! — Nikos Kazantzakis

I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio got the prop department to make a little pie wagon and they filled it with tarts. I wheeled it around the set and sold them to the crew. I was about eight years old. I always sold out and I didn't have to pay for them. It was a great deal. — Shirley Temple

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am. — Rufus Sewell

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue. — Patricia Wentworth

A rose is but a rose, it blooms because it blooms; it thinks not of itself, nor asks if it is seen. — Angelus Silesius

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself. — Edmund Burke

Thus for me, the principal meaning of being a Jew was something people reliably held against me, a barrier to overcome. — Scott Turow

Oh no," she murmured, her smile thawing, falling, carried away with the undeniable, inevitable, impossible truth of it. She was falling in love with him. — Marissa Meyer