Vialpando Quotes & Sayings

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it. — Sara Levine

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. — Socrates

Absurdities die of self-strangulation. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side ... allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only. — Abraham Lincoln

If you spend enough time with your characters, plot simply happens. — Chris Baty

And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force. — Francesco Clemente

You know how to use magic?" I asked. "I prefer calculus. — Jim Butcher

Believe in yourself. That's real magic. — Odette Beane

Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of. — Amy Tan

If a woman chooses to work, people say, "Oh it's so sad that you're not at home with your children." But no one ever says that to a man because it's assumed that the man is going to be the provider. There's this double standard that exists and it really frustrates me. — Diablo Cody

The first priority is to guard one's own integrity. — Steven Redhead