Smart Axe Folsom Quotes & Sayings

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers. — Mark Twain

I grew up in a very 'Friday Night Lights,' sports-focused town. I did not play the sports. I was never bullied physically, but I was called names. I was also an overweight kid. I knew what it's like to feel like the other, to feel written off for things that were not in my control - my appearance, my interests. — Robin Lord Taylor

Fillette." He twisted his upper body toward her, so he could put both arms around her, press her back against the pillows and blot out the lamplight with his shoulder. "I only ever want to love you because it's you, and it's me, and I can't help myself." He whispered against her neck in French and she felt herself melting. — Lauren Gilley

I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue. — Edmund Phelps

What do you mean Taurus? he frowns. I'm not a Taurus.

You were born on the cusp, I remind him. Jason merely shrugs.

Shows what you know, Scotty, I was born in Ohio.

I can take him anywhere but out. — Steve Kluger

Don't kid yourself. Keep the baby - I have no other advice for you. Children are the best thing in the world. — Elvira Baryakina

Memories fluttered about her mind, of days that had passed and died and were never to return. — Lisa Jewell

The beautiful are found in the edge of a room
crumpled into spiders and needles and silence
and we can never understand why they
left,they were so
beautiful.
they dont make it,
the beautiful die young
and leave the ugly to their ugly lives. — Charles Bukowski

All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. — Alexander Pope

I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw. — Sophie Calle

I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows! — Patricia Clarkson

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it — Fernando Pessoa