Slenderer Quotes & Sayings

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story ... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

I don't know what laws of physics are involved, but if you fill a gym with teenagers
and tell them to stare at one object, heat is actually produced. I half expected to
spontaneously combust.
Katrina — Suzanne Selfors

Could there be a slenderer, more insignificant thread in human history than this consciousness of a girl, busy with her small inferences of the way in which she could make her life pleasant? — George Eliot

There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other people's lives. — Richard Branson

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books? — Friedrich Nietzsche

There's something in the cross that says this is not just about my "salvation" but about the "salvation" of all those who suffer injustice and inequality. — Mel White

Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop's fall. — James Russell Lowell

You have the absolute power to change someone's life with kindness. — Curt Mega

It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body. — Gustav Meyrink

I have a rule that I won't Google my own name. — Topher Grace

The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making. — Joaquin Sorolla

When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience. — Nicholas Lea

A mutual fund can do for you what you would do for yourself if you had sufficient time, training, and money to diversify, plus the temperament to stand back from your money and make rational decisions. — Venita VanCaspel

New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland. — Ned Sublette