Valaida Snow Quotes & Sayings

When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things. — Beyonce Knowles

But, for a little while, this is the place for us
a good place too
a place of good omen, a place of beginning things
and of ending things I never thought would end. — Beryl Markham

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves. — Ridley Scott

These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered himself for one without any lot. All else were struck with admiration for the nobleness and with love for the goodness of the act. — Plutarch

This writing wasn't painful. It was like being high. — William McKeen

She said it was different, because the balance of power was equal between women so sex was an even-steven transaction. I said "even-steven" was a sexist phrase, if she was going to be like that, and anyway that argument was outdated. She said I had trivialized the issue and if I thought it was outdated, I was living with my head in the sand.
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I said there was more than one way of living with your head in the sand and that if Moira thought she could create Utopia by shutting herself up in a women-only enclave she was sadly mistaken. Men were not just going to go away, I said. You couldn't just ignore them . — Margaret Atwood

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter. — Nicholas Royle

I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I own. — Poppy Delevingne

This somewhat surprised Dodger; no one had offered him a prayer before, as far as he could recall. The idea that he might have one was, on this chilly night, a welcome warmth. Cuddling that to his bosom, he led Onan up the longs stairs to bed. — Terry Pratchett

It was still mild when they walked home from the party, and Irene looked up at the spring stars. "How far that little candle throws its beams," she exclaimed. "So shines a good dead in a naughty world. — John Cheever

I was always going to do terrible things because it was in my nature. — Lily Paradis

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy. — Henri Nouwen

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. — Vicki Baum