Saoulent Quotes & Sayings

One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa. — Mac O'Grady

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable. — Stevie Smith

When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that. — Tatiana Maslany

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man. — Seneca The Younger

Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between. — Aaron Hill

Research. Government archives. Detective work. Few lucky guesses. Easy. — Douglas Adams

In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell. — George Herbert

I suppose ... in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was ... it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were. — John McGahern

I'm not someone who is glamorous all the time. — Shania Twain

You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear. — Robert Gottlieb

Sometimes love comes easily, and sometimes it's the most challenging decision a person ever makes. That reality doesn't make one way right and the other wrong, it just is. The love underlying marriage is more than an emotion, more than a set of facts adding up to a decision. It's the choice that this is the person I'm going to stay with for the rest of my life. It's something you have to make with your head and your heart . . . . — Dee Henderson

Do I often think of Sibylle?
I'd say that I don't know. I don't think about her but I haven't forgotten her for a minute. It's as if I'd never lived without her. Nothing holds us together but I am steeped in her presence. I sometimes remembered the scent of her skin or breath and it would feel as if she was still holding me in her arms while dancing or sitting next to me and I would only have to reach out my hand to touch her. But what is supposed to hold us together - these long evenings, these long nights, these farewells at her door in the dawn light, these endless periods of loneliness? — Annemarie Schwarzenbach

I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me. — Adam Langer

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! — Robert Browning