Talese Publisher Quotes & Sayings

What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can't live without each other, so we deal with it? And then we could spend our lives together
in misery, but happy to not be apart. — Elizabeth Gilbert

It's a message from the Universe. "The best relationships begin as friendships. — Devon Herrera

Anger is often a big problem for people who grew up in families where the overt expression of anger was an everyday occurrence. They have too much opportunity to practice anger and not enough sense of the other possibilities. Rage becomes, for them, the habitual response of the mind to unpleasant situations ... When people begin to see that anger, like any other mind energy, is just a transient phenomenon and therefore workable, they are very relieved [p. 83]. — Sylvia Boorstein

A story is like a machine with numerous gears: it should contain no gear that doesn't turn something — John Gardner

We feel that if someone is bad, he should be burdened with the knowledge that he is bad. It seems to us the ultimate injustice that a person could be evil, by our assessment , and still feel fine about himself. — Martha Stout

People just don't understand, they aren't your level and they won't get there soon. So move because you will fall from there! — Deyth Banger

People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird. — Derek Thompson

The visit promised to be more honorable than agreeable, and Maggie almost wished herself at home again. — Elizabeth Gaskell

More people have died in the name of religion than have ever died of cancer. And we try to cure cancer ... What makes us take up arms against those who pray to the same God with different words? — Chuck Austen

We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives. — Richard Branson

People think, 'Wow, you're an actress, so people must be really nice to you and kiss your ass.' NOBODY kisses my ass. — Alicia Silverstone