Sweg Quotes & Sayings

I would love to sit at home all day and play with my kids. It's my favorite thing to do in my time off. — Buddy Valastro

This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and Joan Didion. Compression, saying as little as possible, making everything carry much more than is actually said. Conflict. Dialogue as part of an ongoing world, not just voices in a dark room. Never say the obvious. Skip the meet and greet. — Janet Fitch

My purse, like all purses, seems to have a traveling black hole in it. — Laurell K. Hamilton

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures. — Gloria Vanderbilt

It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking. — Elizabeth David

If something's important to you, you make time for it. — Mia Maestro

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish. — George Herbert

That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles. — William Shakespeare

And when they finally demanded that I had to stop keeping score and that I needed to play every future contest as an exhibition, I casually made the kind of statement sixteen-year-olds should not make to forty-six-year-old Midwestern housewives: "Why are you telling me how to do my job?" I asked. "It's not like I show up in your kitchen and tell you when to bake cookies. — Chuck Klosterman

Professor Henry Higgins: There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! — Alan Jay Lerner