Rivieroewer Quotes & Sayings

Real writers never show their teeth. Charlatans, in contrast, flash that sinister crescent when they smile. Check it out. Find photos of all the writers you respect, and you'll see that their teeth remain a permanently occult mystery. — Valeria Luiselli

For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia. — Miranda Richardson

The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic. — Mark Twain

Words began fights and words ended them. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely. — Preston Sturges

Impossible has always been a dare. — Shannon L. Alder

They die like superheroes: cracking a joke. Like they're just going to get up tomorrow and fight another day. No fear. Balls to the wall until the bloody end. — Karen Marie Moning

There, there." Fruit cake. "Calm down - " "Don't — Penny Reid

I can love what is broken. — Carla H. Krueger

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness. — B.K.S. Iyengar