Sweetums Candy Quotes & Sayings

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world. — Carl Hiaasen

Ah! poor religion, thou hast been sorely shot at by cruel foes, but thou hast not been wounded one-half so dangerously by thy foes as by thy friends. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

What memories for mud to have. — Kurt Vonnegut

Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah. — Sara Paretsky

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there. — George Leigh Mallory

Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl. — Ken Marino

I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time. — Megan McCafferty

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations. — Rick Renzi

Any director will tell you, no matter how big his budget, that it's always the budget and the day count. — Michael Sucsy

The thing was, love wasn't a bond of convenience. We couldn't help who we loved. We couldn't stop our hearts from beating for a particular person because they're on the other side of the world, or the other side of banishment. — Abigail Baker

I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists. — Italo Calvino