Raphael Sorel Quotes & Sayings

You know, you got to get the devil out the house 'fore you can clean it up! — Ron Hall

There's no better way to process pain than to write. — Rashida Jones

As entertaining as it would be to see you run in a screaming conflagration from my kitchen after falling face-first into the fire, I am in no mood to clean it up. — Joseph R. Lallo

My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice. — Garry Kasparov

The children became their reciprocal angels: readers. — Daniel Pennac

FOR TREES THAT LIVE in the snow, winter is a journey. Plants do not travel through — Hope Jahren

I realize the congressman isn't in. I want you to deliver this message to him personally: Tell him to shut his goddamn mouth! ... I know we're working behind the scenes to protect the oil company from its victims. That's exactly why he needs to go mute. Those were the strict ground rules from the beginning of his term: no press conferences, no interviews except Fox, and sit like a silent lump in the committee ... Because he's fucking stupid! And I'm not going to let him throw this away! Do you have any idea how hard it was to get a moron like that elected? — Tim Dorsey

By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job. — Irv Kupcinet

I am not a crook. — Richard M. Nixon

There are many kinds of delusion. — Michael Ende

Could a flavor be pleased with itself and its position in the world? That was plum. Not the sharp-flavored skin and the sweet flesh of a fresh plum, but more the concentrated flavor when the fruit was cooked down for a tart filling. Like the taste of port. In fact, I liked to pair plum and port together. — Judith Fertig