Urban Fiction Authors Quotes & Sayings

This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is ... the supreme epitome of the reaching out. — Loren Eiseley

It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. — Roald Dahl

Hemingway has his classic moment in "The Sun Also Rises" when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. All he can say is, "Gradually, then suddenly." That's how depression hits. You wake up one morning, afraid that you're gonna live. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

I love the grime, the real-life feel of things, the mix of dollar stores and libraries, high school students and prostitutes, little kids and dealers. What I like most about my Parkdale neighbourhood is that I can disappear. — Danila Botha

Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you. — Thomas A Kempis

Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs. — Alexander Lowen

Trust her heart, Assefa, and believe in yourself. No matter the challenge, no matter the foe, be brave, be wise, be the undefeated Mngwa of lore. — N.D. Jones

People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it - otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society. — Greg Graffin

What I've learned is, what people want is to tell someone, anyone, their problems. — Danila Botha

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. — Tony Blair

The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body. — Mahatma Gandhi

A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street. — Conan O'Brien

My teeth ache, my gums hurt, and my cat is tearing me apart, wanting you in every way imaginable. Your body. Your magic. Your fire spirit. Your blood. — N.D. Jones

Sin is also a necessary piece of our mental furniture because sin is communal, while error is individual. — David Brooks

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair. — Joseph Addison

The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides. — Sarah Ruhl

Europe is not old; it's rotten. Most Europeans are ignorant, racist, greedy and lazy. — Daniel Marques

I don't wanna wrestle Big Show tonight because I'm scared that he's gonna eat me! — John Cena