Satinwood Quotes & Sayings

We are late, Alexandra," said the dowager duchess as she stood in Alex's drawing room idly examining a magnificent fourteenth-century sculpture reposing on a satinwood table. "And I don't mind telling you, now that the time is upon us, I have a worse feeling about this now than I did earlier. And my instincts are never wrong. — Judith McNaught

A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging. — Barry Lyga

I recently hurt myself on a treadmill and it wasn't even on. I was adjusting my speed and stepped wrong and twisted my ankle. I felt a moment of frustration filled with immediate relief. I didn't have to actually work out, but I still got credit for trying. It was a gym snow day. — Amy Poehler

What has six balls and screws Texans? The Texas Lottery. — Kinky Friedman

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake. — Walter Raleigh

Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago. — Jon Bon Jovi

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. — Robert Greene

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything. — Rumi

It's hard to look at it like that, isn't it? Because if you can be a better parent than the ones you had, you have to face the fact that your parents had that choice too. If you're not fated to be an awful parent, they weren't either. And," I said feeling my throat tighten, "it's easier to believe that we're all just [f*'d] than it is to know there are choices." I rubbed my hands together to try to get my fingers to warm up. "It hurts less to think they couldn't have done any better than they did, doesn't it? — Allie Larkin

The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible. — August Macke

If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the sunshine that smiled upon it, of the winds that whispered to it, of the birds that sang around it, of the storms that visited it, and of the motherly tree that held it and fed it until its petals were unfolded and its form developed. — Lucy Larcom

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased. — Mark Nepo

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together. — Rebecca Stead

I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early ... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses. — Mickey Spillane

I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical. — Shane Smith

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected. — Michelle Bachelet