Wife's Lament Quotes & Sayings

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them. — Tobias Wolff

Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice. — Quentin Crisp

We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine. — M.J. Rose

I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit - profits extracted at the cost of life. — Vandana Shiva

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together. — Sylvester Stallone

There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor. — Campbell Scott

Nothing like a horseless sleigh to spark a conversation. Mark my word, my boy. Horseless will be the way of the future! — Christina Daley

Wicca's temples are flowered-splashed meadows, forest, beaches, and deserts. — Scott Cunningham

When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win. — William Galston

Because if you are raised on the Bible, you don't just walk away, whatever anybody says. — Jeanette Winterson