Samoborske Quotes & Sayings

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs. — Stephen Colbert

I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away. — Joaquin Phoenix

But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen. — William Hazlitt

I always joke deep down I'm really a teenage girl on the inside. — John Searles

Sometimes the answers are not there until we stand still and listen. But they are there and they are usually surrounded by love. You are too. — Jan Hellriegel

I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity. — Julie Anne Peters

you don't have to be dead to haunt. Parents, songs, exes. — Samantha Hunt

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential. — Brian Tracy

I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth. — Dorothy Allison

What? Isn't there just a password? — J.K. Rowling

And thus woman has been definitely established as the Other. Western mythology itself was a patriarchal construct; through its portrayal of woman as the ambivalent projection of man's fears and desires, not as her own independent self, mythology translates the message that woman must respect a 'natural order of things' or risk responsibility for human chaos and destruction. — Doris Meyer

Books don't change the world, people change the world, books only change people. — Mario Quintana

You have to write about what keeps you up at night. — Judy Goldman