Truman Capote Miriam Quotes & Sayings

A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases. — Charles Jencks

It is impossible to acquire the joy of success without God. — Sunday Adelaja

If you want to program conservatively, you need to live with the labels. Be proud and stand up for your beliefs! — Steve Yegge

All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to read them if they read them. — Matthew Tobin Anderson

His picturesque and filthy loquacity flowed like a troubled stream from a poisoned source. — Joseph Conrad

He didn't see a man with hopes and dreams, with disappointments and accomplishments. All he saw in front of him was just another nigger. — Kenneth Eade

Her mother is asking her a question and she is forced to resurface from the sanctuary of daydream. — Nick Bantock

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. — Mark Twain

I've grown quite fond of your warhorse Big. Will you give her to me? — Kristin Cashore

Sometimes success is simply being willing to give it your all. — Amanda Beard

I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he might destroy something that I loved. What if his words had the effect of polio on me? What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man. — Yann Martel

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man ... — Margaret Halsey

A general silence prevailed
A silence, which was by nothing interrupted but by the loud and repeated snores of one of the Party. "What an illiterate villian must that man be! (thought I to myself) What a total want of delicate refinement must he have, who can thus shock our senses by such a brutal noise! He must I am certain be capable of every bad action! There is no crime too black for such a Character!" Thus reasoned I within myself, and doubtless such were the reflections of my fellow travellers. — Jane Austen