Tapometer Quotes & Sayings

My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble with my husband for that. Then I run around like a lunatic cleaning up and creating the appearance of order. — Catherine Martin

All the rare-book dealers regaled me with stories of the trade. They told me that after the war there were too many books and not enough bookshop space, so all the dealers in London BURIED hundreds of old books in the open bomb craters of London streets. Today the buried books would be worth a fortune if they could be recovered, if the new buildings could be torn down and the rebuilt streets torn up. I had a sudden vision of an atomic war destroying everything in the world, except here and there an old book lying where it fell when it was blasted up out of the depths of London. — Helene Hanff

Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it." — Bill Maher

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies. — Zoe Kazan

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard. — Peter Gallagher

Practice like the Devil. — Doc Watson

Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds. — R. K. Milholland

Anonymous dark hotel room, not one of Toreth's regular places. Anonymous hands on him, anonymous cock inside him. He liked it. He wanted it. Doing, not feeling. A safe, familiar thing and it was good. Or at least it stopped him thinking. When they had finished and were dressing, the man whose name he hadn't asked said, "Tell Warrick I said hello."
Toreth nearly choked. "What?"
"After hearing his name so many times, I feel like I know him." He didn't have an answer to that. — Manna Francis

[H]e who fears to lose will never win. — David Gemmell

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me. — Jessica Simpson

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish. — Bill Owens