Swan Princess Rogers Quotes & Sayings

New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second. — Fran Lebowitz

I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter than you really are if I can joke. But it's interesting. People will buy your book and hire you without reading the book just because you have a book and you have a book on a subject that they think is of interest to themselves or e to their company. — Brian Tracy

The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life. — Anita Hill

My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest develops as I write, and research helps a great deal with that. If you're going to write about an agrarian economy, research agrarian economies. If your main character is starving, then you should know what it means for a malnourished body to break down. — Leigh Bardugo

What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it. — John Frusciante

And then I did one called High Rollers and that was a lot of fun. — Wink Martindale

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds. — Bjork

She dove, plunging fully beneath the surface and came up again in tears. Rivulets ran from her face, and the sun ignited them each, transforming them, even amid her sorrow, into gilded runnels set with a diamond shine. — A.S. Peterson

One chair for solitude, two for friendship, and three for society. — Henry David Thoreau

Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before. — Jerry Saltz

The Pudding of Obligation. (Placed upon the Doily of Resentment.) — Theo Ellsworth

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

By refraining from reducing multiplication to addition we are enabled through these axioms to banish continuity, which is so difficult to fix precisely, from the logical structure of geometry. — Hermann Weyl

Little girls think their fathers will save them. Women know better. — Rafael Yglesias