Vanity Strikes Quotes & Sayings

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work out in the world, written and published, I like to imagine it's being read by some stranger somewhere who doesn't have anyone around him to talk to about books and writing - maybe a would-be writer, maybe a little lonely, who depends on a certain kind of writing to make him feel more comfortable in the world. — Don DeLillo

I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right. — Martin Amis

We put God in front of terrifying things, and we knocked three times, and we took drugs and shopped too much and obsessed about success, so that the scary stuff would look farther away than it was. We worried, because maybe if we worried enough, it would act like a spell of safety. All those things, superstitions and addictions and anxiety, they were all about hiding from what scared the shit out of us. — Deb Caletti

Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger? — Julianna Margulies

Okay, Barrons, it's time."
"I am not helping you shave your legs." he said instantly.
"Oh please. As if I'd let you. — Karen Marie Moning

Brace and be brisk,
commoner, carry your heart like an egg
on a spoon, be fleet through the concourse, primed
for that point in time when the world goes bust — Simon Armitage

One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar. — Clive Sinclair

What do warriors do? They are in competition with everyone else. They measure their success and their value on the basis of who they are better than, how much they get, and so on. So, this is the time in your adult life when your primary emphasis is on goal setting, on getting someplace else, and on defeating other people. — Wayne Dyer

History indicates that wolf control is sometimes poor biology, often poor economics, and almost always poor public relations. — Victor Van Ballenberghe

But now, it's almost six o'clock, — Kendall Ryan

Ieyascu looks bright and flat, heavy strokes on an invisible canvas. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

Well, I have been in physical altercations, but they weren't really fights because I am too scared and Jewish. So anytime that it gets to a point where there is gonna be a fight, I immediately apologize. — Adam Pally

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

China continues to welcome foreign investment, and the door will open even further. — Li Keqiang