Streffords Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the act of articulating those thoughts were not synchronous to me, or even necessarily consecutive. I knew that I thought and spoke in the same language and that theoretically there should be no reason why I could not express my thoughts as they occurred or soon thereafter, but the language in which I thought and the language in which I spoke, though both English, often seemed divided by a gap that could not be simultaneously, or even retrospectively, bridged. — Peter Cameron

Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing. — Jon Ronson

Nothing human is foreign to us — Edward G. Robinson

I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective. — Sarah Silverman

He hates surface talk. He wants to dive right through it. With anyone. Because anyone he talks to seems to have something worthwhile to say. — David Levithan

The dress means no harm, after all. And it is new. It carries nothing inside it but the possible beginnings of her downfall. — Amanda Hodgkinson

Ever since that day in Chicago, whenever I see such scenes, I think of a quote by Billat-Savarin, the eighteenth-century 'modern' gastronome, well known for his writings and meditations on the physiology of taste and for his famous dictum 'We are what we eat.' But he also wrote even more revealingly: 'The destiny of a nation depends on how it feeds itself. — Mireille Guiliano

I'm doing what I like, why wouldn't I be happy? So what if it's not perfect, I don't believe in perfection. Maybe happy's as good as it gets. — John Dunning

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world. — Tanith Lee

Wait. Is a real, live adult person actually asking me details about the games I play? This is unheard of. — Denis Markell

She thought she was a sensible girl. But some kind of love had taken hold of her and refused to let her go, and it wasn't a happy, easy, joyful thing, it had her in a vice-like grip. — Harriet Evans

Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny. — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj