Spomenar Quotes & Sayings

The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now. — Dinaw Mengestu

Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy. — Linus Pauling

We should have a banquet on the day haters die. — Ovadia Yosef

I woke up in a barnyard when I heard a farmer shout. Get away, boy, from my daughter, then a shot gun rang out. — Rod Stewart

People who live in the luxury of a steady paycheck and food in their bellies get too caught up in right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, heroes and villains, even truth and lies. As if we're all either one or the other. As if we all have a choice. As if I have a choice. But I don't believe in choices. I believe in survival. — Katie McGarry

Okay," I said,hoping I sounded confident, like taking the life force out of ghouls was one of my favorite hobbies, right up there with knitting and sudoku. — Rachel Hawkins

She had traded that first womb for twenty notes and a case of Ras Tiegan beer. — Kameron Hurley

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature. — Samuel Johnson

We learn to pray by praying. One can devote countless hours to examining the experiences of others, but nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal fervent prayer and its heaven sent response. — Thomas S. Monson

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about. — Hubert Selby Jr.

F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude ... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective of old Welles films rather than remind everyone of how low his ability as a filmmaker has plummeted. — Rex Reed

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person. — Mary Tyler Moore

I am very curious about life. I only hope it stays curious about me. — Mark Everett Stone

Going from PayPal, I thought: 'Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?' Not from the perspective, 'What's the best way to make money?' — Elon Musk