Soonik Quotes & Sayings

In response to his question, she warned, "There will not be any more kissing. You were an excellent teacher. I graduated from your class."
He laughed,though he was quick to rejoin, "How disappointing. You were supposed to claim ineptitude and ask for further guidance. — Johanna Lindsey

Holy shit!"

"Since when is shit holy? — Katie Klein

The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate. — Arnold Schoenberg

Books were my passion and my escape from madness. — Dorothea Benton Frank

Both my parents are chefs ... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food. — Ming-Na Wen

There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart. — Cheryl Strayed

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there. — Donald Barthelme

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. — Henry Adams

In a very real way, television is the new mythos. It defines the world, reinterprets it. The seasons do not change because Persephone goes underground. They change because new episodes air, because sweeps week demands conflagrations and ritual deaths. The television series rises slowly, arcs, descends into hiatus, and rises again with the bright, burning autumn. — Catherynne M Valente

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on. — Michael P. Anderson

I'm not entirely sure why I write. — Sarah MacLean

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. — Franz Kafka

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself. — Sydney Pollack

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up. — Marilyn Johnson