Waxed Canvas Quotes & Sayings

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night. — Cynthia Rowley

To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly prides itself on the vibrancy of its literary cottage industry, Amis is the Steve Jobs of book promoters, and his product rollouts are as carefully managed as anything Apple dreams up. — Graydon Carter

What an idiot I'd been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool. — David Millar

If you are still breathing maybe it is not such a bad day after all ... — Darren E. Laws

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument. — Tryon Edwards

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive. — Kevin J. Anderson

The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem. — Jase Robertson

If this were a movie, I would bust a secret move so fierce the entire place would be razed to the ground. I'd finish with something snappy like "And don't forget my soda, punk" while I strolled off into the night. — Libba Bray

A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that. — Daniel Radcliffe

What you call your life is not yours at all
not yours to plan, manipulate, or control, at least not very often ... In fleeting moments of deep satisfaction and insight, I saw the absolute truth of life: the unbroken line of love that had led to my existence and would lead on through my daughter. My mother's love, her mother's love, her mother's love, and back and back forever ago. Love that is no mere word, love that goes beyond feeling, love that is life itself ... What miracles, what sacrifice, what love! ... Can you imagine this love? Can you anticipate it, fabricate it, measure and evaluate it? No you can't, you can only be love, and your child will release its magnitude within you. — Karen Maezen Miller

It was always gloomy in Mal's room, just as it was always gray and overcast on the island. — Melissa De La Cruz

When the baby is older take the diapers off, my girl is gonna do the Slop. — Chubby Checker

It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in - and then the Lord help you. — Ernest Rutherford

These kids will make you cry, laugh ... They make you feel all kinds of emotions through their writings and they share a lot with me, as an instructor, that they might not normally share with other people because they are young artists and they need a platform for pulling that stuff out. — Clinton D. Powell

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes. — Sophie Swetchine