Scribbler Popsicles Quotes & Sayings

I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimulator of my running was fear. — Herb Elliott

I'd learned more about her in that exhausted, murmuring hour than in all the many months before it. Lovers find their way by such insights and confidences: they're the stars we use to navigate the ocean of desire. And the brightest of those stars are the heartbreaks and sorrows. The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering. So I took each sadness she confessed to me, and pinned it to the sky. — Gregory David Roberts

I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us. — Sonya Hartnett

We need to be grateful for many things that didn't happen. — C.J. Langenhoven

Writing is self-expression and no matter how complex the idea might be in the head when it is put in paper, it simplifies. It gives pleasure. It keeps track of who we are. Keeping a habit of writing is very beneficial to anyone. It is a bliss. — Bishwas Mishra

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point. — Douglas William Jerrold

I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community. — Paul Newman

The choir sang and the old man sang and Drake couldn't sing, and suddenly he began to cry because of the music, because of the sound of the boys' voices, because of what they might turn into. — Sarah Winman

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat. — Mike Tyson

I wonder why looking at that causes sleepiness ... Maybe it's the illusion-type magic that Spriggans are good at or something. — Reki Kawahara

I find prostitutes vastly important. — Richelle Mead

Such are the humiliations of the travel writer in the late 20th century: go to the ends of the earth to search for the most exotic heretics in the world, and you will find that they have cornered the kebab business at the end of your street in London. — William Dalrymple