Schrijvers Online Quotes & Sayings

A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself alone, not for anyone else, and that was the difference. It didn't matter if I found the words, and more than that, I knew it would be impossible to find the right ones. — Nicole Krauss

For every two degrees the temperature goes up, check-ins at ice cream shops go up by 2%. — Andrew Hogue

If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be ... Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give. — Tina Turner

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences. — Marian Wright Edelman

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram. — Charles Dickens

And this gay thing. It feels so big. It's almost insurmountable. I don't know how to tell them something like this and still come out of it feeling like Simon. Because if Leah and Nick don't recognize me, I don't even recognize myself anymore. — Becky Albertalli

I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that. — Kim Wilde

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it. — Henry Rollins