Schenkers International Quotes & Sayings

No, Mistress of Doubts, I've brought you here to this secluded corner of the city for the nefarious purpose of cooking your dinner myself. — Scott Lynch

I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple. — Bharati Mukherjee

You don't have to be rich and famous to have adventures! — Edmond P. DeRousse

Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions. — Ellen Key

All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala. — Lynne Truss

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story. — Juliet Stevenson

The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure. — Joan D. Chittister

I'm drawing in my head pretty much. — Nelson Shanks

First try all other means, but if the wound
Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean
From the diseased the canker spread. — Ovid

Despite noble depravity, there was something intoxicating about high society. — Brandon Sanderson

Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not. — Terence