Shondaland Media Quotes & Sayings

I am always and at once on the defensive, for example, when people speak of races and nations as if they were personalities and had souls and destinies and such like. — Christopher Hitchens

She had a tall bearing and a tall voice and a tall manner, and was tall in every respect except height. Amazingly, she'd apparently been able to keep this a secret from people. — Terry Pratchett

The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so ... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice. — Shunryu Suzuki

My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters. — Allison Pearson

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction . — A.S. Byatt

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. — Isabel Allende

But that's the thing Artie. What if Romani isn't a man " Amelia said leaning forward.
"Great. We'll alert Scotland Yard and tell them they're looking for a vampire. Or a werewolf. I'm assuming you've cross-referenced this with the lunar cycles."
"What if it's a name " Amelia said undaunted. She spread the files across the desk. "A name that has been used by a lot of people for a very long time."
"Excellent." Her boss pushed the files aside and returned to his order and his lists and his life. "You cracked it. Great work. I'll call the Henley right away and tell them Leonardo's Angel Returning to Heaven was stolen by a name. — Ally Carter

Be still my non-beating heart. — Jeaniene Frost

[Nature] ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty ... — William Morris

But let the good prevail. — Aeschylus

Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird. — Miuccia Prada

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job. — Herman Cain

His third-floor bedroom wasn't an all-American room. It was an all-English room, lacking only a three-pronged outlet and a draft. — Peter Smith

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius, as we tend to talk about it today, is some sort of mysterious and combustible substance that burns brightly and burns out. It's the strange gift of poets and pop stars that allows them to produce one wonderful work in their early twenties and then nothing. It is mysterious. It is there. It is gone. — Mark Forsyth