Skandalno Quotes & Sayings

Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn to the standby anthologies of poetry to satisfy that itch for music, for perfection and economy of phrasing, for exactness of tone. Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next. — Pat Conroy

Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from. — Sevyn Streeter

Recordings of Georgian folk polyphonic songs makes a great musical impression. They are recorded in a tradition of active reproduction of Georgian folk music the origin of which begins from ancient time. It is a wonderful finding and can give to the performance much more than all the modem music can ... Yodel or "Krimanchuli" as it is called in Georgia is the best song which I have ever heard. ["America" magazine, No 23 1967] — Igor Stravinsky

The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life ... — Elspeth Huxley

I love Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik. — Danielle De Niese

Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote. — Susan Jane Gilman

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am. — Karl Lagerfeld

We're just a bunch of angry kinds with no money. — David

I discuss my beliefs less because I bed my atheist, who cannot believe in much more sacred than our kisses. — Thomm Quackenbush

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round. — John Green

In the old days feminists would mock women who depended so much on a man. Today if the man is the government, not so much. A man who opens the door for you is a Neanderthal; a bureaucrat who pays for your pills? A hero. — Greg Gutfeld

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence. — Francois Fenelon

My favorite, and I repeat it often while swimming is from a well known coach around here — Bob Bruce

Till now, I could not have supposed it possible to be mistaken as to a girl's being out or not. A girl not out, has always the same sort of dress: a close bonnet, for instance; looks very demure, and never says a word. You may smile, but it is so, I assure you; and except that it is sometimes carried a little too far, it is all very proper. Girls should be quiet and modest. The most objectionable part is, that the alteration of manners on being introduced into company is frequently too sudden. They sometimes pass in such very little time from reserve to quite the opposite - to confidence! That is the faulty part of the present system. — Jane Austen