Tid Extras Quotes & Sayings

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts. — Italo Calvino

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut. — Todd Solondz

India is there to unite all human races. Because of that reason in India we have not been given the unity of races. — Rabindranath Tagore

Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin — Walter Dean Myers

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds. — Beth Ditto

Rookie agent Melody Ganz spoke up. Ganz was on temporary assignment to Bravo after her gorgeous legs caught Kelli Randleman's attention early on in the Copeland investigation. Although basically straight, Melody had experimented a little in college and saw nothing wrong with switch-hitting if it got her out of the Bureau's dreadful backwater office in Jacksonville, South Carolina. — Jess Money

You can tell how often a person thinks of you by how often they tell you they think of you. — Mark W. Boyer

Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda.
The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis. — Thomas Merton

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. — Vitruvius

We pushed to the edge of recklessness, yet I felt safe. — Ruta Sepetys

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980. — Siri Hustvedt

The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs, it is that anyone who tries to write about them without first-expierience is a fool and a fraud. — Hunter S. Thompson

The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything. — J.I. Packer

Tomorrow: An illusion of time that really doesn't exist — Ojo Michael E.