Quotes & Sayings About Simon In Lotf

I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of the plot. I write without thinking much, trying to overcome all kinds of self-criticism, without stopping, without giving any consideration to the style or structure of the novel, only putting down on paper everything that can be used as raw material, very crude material for later development in the story. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female to have those qualities because they're perceived as feminine. Until men are raised with those qualities, too, they won't have the full circle of human qualities. — Gloria Steinem

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth. — Bell Hooks

You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that at each moment each one of us, man, woman, child, perhaps even the poor old horse turning the mill-wheel, knew what was just: all creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. "But we live in a world of laws," I said to my poor prisoner, "a world of the second-best. There is nothing we can do about that. We are fallen creatures. All we can do is to uphold the laws, all of us, without allowing the memory of justice to fade. — J.M. Coetzee

My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad. — Mark Teixeira

To say I'm an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair. — Tina Fey

I announced to my mother one day when I was 8 that I wanted to be a serious actress. — Meredith Salenger

When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement.
Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace. — Albert Camus

You're offering to help us against those things down there, when it seems to me that you'd want to be down there with them, looking up at us, waiting for the dinner bell to ring. — M.R. Carey

There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable. — Mark Strickson

The sooner, the better! — Franklin W. Dixon

This is, like, the biggest thing to happen in our town since that girl found a potato that looked like Mother Teresa. — John M. Cusick