Traynor Bass Quotes & Sayings

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery. — Maureen Corrigan

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Writers can write whatever they want, but after THE END, when they self publish their book, they become accountable to readers for the quality of the book they're selling. — Eeva Lancaster

I am usually at my most brutally forthright when making shit up. That's the paradox of me. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

How do I get to Carnegie Hall? — Mischa Elman

My father didn't push me. — William Clay Ford Jr.

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't. — Cassandra Clare

So, not at first, but I eventually realized I was seeing this level of reality that's going on right over our heads and most people have no idea it's even there. I realized I was seeing the night sky as our ancestors did, and that by losing it, we'd lost our everyday touch with our place in the cosmos. — Brian Hodge

We know that there is a standard set for us in the heavens, a standard revealed to us in this book [the Bible] whih is the fixed and eternal standard by which we judge ourselves ... Nothing makes America great except her acceptance of those standards of judgement which are written large upon the pages of revelation ... Let no man suppose that progress can be divorced from religion, or that there is any other platform for the ministers of reform than the platform written in the utterances of our Lord and Savior. America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture. — Woodrow Wilson

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. — James Allen

Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists. — Marshall Sylver