Whiptail Lizard Quotes & Sayings

Vices are their own punishment — Aesop

Please then, can we stop this obsession with the tiny minority of writers who have made a fortune from their work, and/or those who look hot in their author pics. Please can we also stop dissolving into factions of the bestselling, the midlist, the self-published, the Hampstead-dwelling, those who like to write cheerful stories and those who prefer to write grim ones. And instead take a proper and considered look at the future of the entire profession of writing. — Caroline Sanderson

Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere. — Peter Ackroyd

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't know. I think you're born with that. I've always been somebody that enjoys life. I want to be happy in it, and I've always been that way. Since I was a kid, I really was somebody that was active. It's just an inner drive, and a willingness to lead a good life. — Sasha Alexander

If you're the kind of person who wants to know what's at the end of the universe, what's at the edge of being ... and comprehension settles on you that you'll never know, despair can well up. — Lydia Millet

My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop. — Lacey Chabert

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets. — Lawrence Summers

My parents divorced when I was one year old so I don't really remember any of the details, but luckily my mom does so she's been really helpful. — Chelsea Peretti

...Everything that's not asexual has two sexes, male and female. Most of the time it takes one of each to reproduce. Then there's the whiptail lizard. This is a lizard that lives way the fuck out there in the middle of the desert, and sometimes it's hard to find another lizard to mate with out there. Therefore, what the female whiptail can do is sort of make her eggs start dividing on their own. She makes daughters, clones of herself. It's called parthenogenesis. — Erin O'Riordan

All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area. — Alexander Liberman