Salonized Quotes & Sayings

Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern. — J.G. Ballard

So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players. — Lakhdar Brahimi

Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself. — Dan Harmon

My mother has told so many times the unbelievable story of how, as a toddler, I would demand raw onions and eat them like apples, I think that, at this juncture, it is a story that just has to be believed. — Alice Dreger

We've talked about this before, Royce," Arcadius yelled at him. "You aren't to hurt the students."
"You said don't kill," Royce replied. "If you don't want misunderstandings, then be specific. The little baron boy will live. Trust me, I know where to stick a knife. — Michael J. Sullivan

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art ... — Robert Henri

Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place. — Seth Godin

Popcorn, chocolate, coffee, ice cream, and pizza. The five food groups. Health nuts are going to feel stupid one day, dying of nothing. — Kelly Moran

They called him well preserved, but they used the term in a way that was uneasy rather than complimentary. — Stephen King

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number. — Derek Fisher

Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. — Rick Pitino

It's still strange. — Arthur K. Flam

If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them. — Harold Laski

[From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex']
Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses religions - even when they worship a goddess - as the inventions of men to perpetuate their dominion. — Simone De Beauvoir