Volopic Quotes & Sayings

I have three copies of the first edition, which sold in double figures, speaking loosely; there was a moment when Blond's 'Lord Malquist and Mr Moon' sold 67 copies, or some such number, in Venezuela - a mystery I never solved. I have never been to Venezuela. I remember going into Foyles' bookshop in 1966 and being gratified to see a stack of Malquist-and-Moons on the New Fiction table. I counted them; there were twelve. A week or two later I went in again; there they were. I counted them again; there were thirteen! I saw at once what was happening. People were leaving my book at bookshops. — Tom Stoppard

Shirtsleeve weather, jacket weather, overcoat weather, parka weather - the Year in Outerwear. For — Gillian Flynn

If a woman is given only a limited amount of time to spend with the man she loves, she endures the separation by constantly recalling and reliving every moment down to the finest detail. — Lucy De Barbin And Dary Matera

My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist. — Orlando Bloom

As I told you earlier, pain is a powerful teacher. To transcend pain, I had to first experience it. I wouldn't be where I am today without it, — Robin S. Sharma

We must give the American worker the first option of ownership. — Jesse Jackson

Needless to say, it was inconceivable that I would be welome in, let alone invited to, their home. It was as well, then, that I did not limit myself only to those places where people might wish me to be. — David Liss

too. A monastery is like a mirror we hold up to the soul. It reflects back to us our weaknesses, struggles, flaws. But by looking deeply into that mirror, we can come face-to-face with an answer. — Judith Valente

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience. — Cameron Diaz

We live with our past, for better and worse. What happens, happens and we must move on. — Chris Cole

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. — Adrian McKinty

Good neighborhoods, rich with water, thick soil, and - most important - full sunlight, give rise to trees that reach their maximum potential. In contrast, trees in bad neighborhoods never achieve half of that height, never have much of a teenage growth spurt, but focus instead on just holding on, growing at less than half the rate of the more fortunate. During — Hope Jahren

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy. — Robert MacNeil