Travelusa Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to be a propagandist or say that Pakistan is just great. There are problems, but it is a much more complex place than we are given to believe. — Mohsin Hamid

I'm missing my baby's first swim lesson. If I am at my daughter's debut in her school musical, I am missing Sandra Oh's last scene ever being filmed at Grey's Anatomy. If I am succeeding at one, I am inevitably failing at the other. That is the trade-off. That is the Faustian bargain one makes with the devil that comes with being a powerful working woman who is also a powerful mother. You never feel 100 percent okay, you never get your sea legs, you are always a little nauseous. Something is always lost. Something is always missing. And yet. I want my daughters to see me and know me as a woman who works. I want that example set for them. — Shonda Rhimes

It is impossible to say how many dinners Drawlight was invited to sit down to that day - and it is fortunate that he was never at any time much of an eater or he might have done some lasting damage to his digestion. — Susanna Clarke

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while. — Delta Goodrem

You can't be with him, Tate. You're a part of me, you belong with me. — Stylo Fantome

The point of a knighthood for British actors is to enable them to play butlers. — Alec Guinness

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. — Abraham Lincoln

Twat is twat and that is that. — George Carlin

What good would learning be if we concentrated on what we already knew? It is only by learning those things that come to us with difficulty that we truly gain wisdom. — Kate Klimo

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be. — Richard Marcinko

I've always felt writing is an art. Publishing is a business. I felt strongly if I was going to write, I would write what I wanted to, and if the 'market' didn't respond, there was nothing I could really do about it. — M.J. Rose

You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees. — Christopher Strachey

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down. — Agnes Repplier

I believe in grey ... Some things aren't straightforward. Not everything is true or false, real or imaginary, black or white. It's not that simple. — Em Bailey