Thehour Quotes & Sayings

I do a lot of rewriting. It's very painful. — James Baldwin

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure. — James Wolcott

Tania, we desperately need to have a minute," he said. "And you know it." She knew it. "This isn't right." "It's the only thing that's right." "All right. Go." "Will you come?" "I will try. Now, go." "Lift your - " Before he stopped speaking, Tatiana raised her face to him. They kissed deeply. "Do you have any idea what I feel?" Alexander whispered, his hands in her hair. "No," Tatiana replied, holding on to him, her legs numb. "I only have an idea what I feel. — Paullina Simons

A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes. — Nikki Giovanni

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed. — Ian McEwan

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people. — Gwen Stefani

When you doubt the existence of God, you essentially doubt your own existence because we were all made in the image of God. Genesis 1:27. — Felix Wantang

Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love. — Scott Westerfeld

Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable. — Henry David Thoreau

I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant and got me through, as an adult those became my defects of character. Those became my shortcomings, control and all that kind of stuff ... and that's my responsibility.
I was a blameless child in what happened in the home; I take responsibility for my behaviors as an adult. — Ashley Judd

Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you. — Augustine Of Hippo

He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex. — Gustave Flaubert