Semetas Quotes & Sayings

Don't be a novelist
be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination. — Darrell Huff

The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet. — Tom Parker Bowles

All conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket shop when the kids have gone to bed. — Andrea McLean

In Europe, his contacts apologized and said there was nothing they could do. They would keep trying, but no one was listening. Rwanda had no oil or strategic interest, no diamonds or gold. — Naomi Benaron

We were expecting to see you at the market."
"Yes. Well. Some people thought I was dead. I was forced to keep a low profile."
"Why ... why did some people think you were dead?"
The marquis looked at Richard with eyes that had seen too much and gone too far. "Because they killed me. — Neil Gaiman

Men only go for skinny women because they're too weak to argue - and salads are cheap. — Frank Carson