Serena Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously. For example, it has been brought to my attention that our ability to continue to pay the hordes of people employed by M&S (God knows how many mouths have to be fed) depends directly on the number of copies of your new book [Life Before Man] that we are able to sell between September and Christmas. In past I have been able to treat this whole thing as a fun game. I have never been troubled by the cavalier explanations about lost manuscripts and fuck-ups of various sorts. Now I have learned that this is a deadly serious game. I don't laugh at jokes about the Canadian postal service. I cry. (in a letter to author Margaret Atwood, dated February, 1979) — Jack McClelland

Remember...You can fool all but the universe! — Timothy Pina

The King in you, challenges me to be the godly Queen God has assigned me to be. — Sharita Leon

This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books. — Garrison Keillor

Happiness isn't expensive, it just costs your will ... — Mehek Bassi

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go. — John Oliver

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it. — Josh Gad

All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well. — Charlotte Bronte

It was, I think in retrospect, the most dramatic individual personal act I have ever seen a soldier take. The mighty powers may try to cover up, but the little people can still sometimes win. — Robert Fisk

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism. — Jim Lehrer