Shanghaied Alternate Quotes & Sayings

People are going to say a lot of things. And some of it will be helpful, and some of it will be annoying, and lots of it will get on your nerves. But they're saying it because they found it helpful when they lost someone. They mean well. — Michelle Falkoff

Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures. — Erica Goros

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original. — Nicholas Sparks

I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely. — Zadie Smith

We really become one - we might wear different clothes or have different sexual preferences or lifestyles than the person next to us, but really those are just details. The person inside is looking for the same thing as their neighbor - freedom, expression, acceptance, love. — Jewel

If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it. — Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The air smelled different here than it did in the woods closer to the clearing. Perhaps it was the species of trees, or the makeup of the soil, but there was something else too. The scent of leaves and dirt and rain had been mingling for centuries, undisturbed by any human. It felt cleaner here, purer, a place where no one had ever spoken and no one hand ever cried. — Kass Morgan

It was like a novel so disgusting you just have to finish it. Annie's — Stephen King

Do whatever you must do to protect your children and wife. — Andrew Galasetti

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. — Carol Ann Duffy