Spentzas Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you do things to yourself so bad that the memories have barbs and never let you go. — Simon R. Green

You expect me to do everything for you?'
' No. Just dress me. Please. — Rachel Caine

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing. — Christopher Walken

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers. — Simeon Strunsky

There is no better application of the Golden Rule than to help a homeless pet. In doing this, you are giving the gift of life itself. And since there is no greater gift, there can be no greater reward — Samantha Glen

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. — Shana Alexander

Diana: "Gilbert told Charlie Sloan that you were the smartest girl in school, right in front of Josie."
Anne: "He did?"
Diana: "He told Charlie being smart was better than being good looking."
Anne: "I should have known he meant to insult me. — L.M. Montgomery

Critics can neither build nor explore. All they do, really, is say yes or no - and complicate it. — Mark Helprin

Sorry for leaving without saying hi. But something came up as soon as I got there."

Now that wasn't going to do, so I pressed on. "Did you think I'd be there?"

He didn't come fast with a response. Instead, his absorbed smile pried my soul, my insides felt tensed, like a queen tiptoeing around the edge of a chessboard, wholly vulnerable in a game she knew nothing about. — C.C. Wyatt

Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise. — Evelyn Waugh

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes. — Vincent Van Gogh

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered — Melanie Rawn

I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves. — John Updike

Reason and speech we onely bring. — George Herbert

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying. — John G. Lake