Schandorff Quotes & Sayings

Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another. — Asa Don Brown

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science. — Jacob Bronowski

One of the greatest challenges is not going to the mattresses with someone who criticizes your novel. — Elizabeth Ann Patterson

Negative words spoken into our lives are like a vine, slowly creeping in, growing, expanding and entangling us until they're finally able to choke the life and dreams out. — Vonae Deyshawn

And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. — Christina Rossetti

I have no choice but to face whatever my reality has become. — S.J. Watson

I wrote a great deal ... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction. — G.H. Hardy

Everyone assumes we're always going to have a cocktail and a cigarette in hand. Fans expect us all to be dressed up all the time. They always say to me, 'You look so young. You don't seem as tall!' — Christina Hendricks

The first things I saw upon dying were Persephone's breasts and nipples. Or at least one nipple, but there was definitely a nipple.
Something seemed wrong about that being the first thing I saw in the afterlife. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

My policy is I am always more than happy to say, "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings." What I am not willing to do is take back what I said. Unless I am wrong. — Bill Maher

The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But if we accept them as bona fide political refugees for that reason, doesn't it follow that people living in countries where abortion is illegal (such as Ireland and Poland) should also receive political asylum? After all, their country's policy is forcing them to give birth to unwanted children. — Ed Koch

There are some things I can't control, & that's just the way it is. — Susane Colasanti