Women Butterfly Tattoos Quotes & Sayings

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster

Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid. — P. J. O'Rourke

Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately. — Vincent De Paul

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work. — Ian McEwan

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past. — Erica Jong

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park. — George Herman

For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week. — James Herbert

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday. — Chinua Achebe

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write. — Marya Hornbacher

Think of today as an opportunity to discover and grow beyond your mental and emotional discomfort. — James Van Praagh

Unless and until we change, we cannot grow. What's life without growth? — Toni Sorenson

From the outside looking in, i think my life would appear very isolated, occupying a huge empty space, with hollow-sounding, emotional echoes. But in reality, this solitary sanctuary i inhabit, allows my artistic nature to sing at the top of its lungs. My feelings have the space they need to breathe. And my art can gain the momentum, it requires, to bubble up to the surface of consciousness. For me, creativity is a chaotic and quiet hybrid, an entity that seeks a safe place to call home. — Jaeda DeWalt

I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking. — Fred W. Friendly

With such and the like fopperies were petty brains troubled. — Martin Luther

Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that having American support will be the kiss of death for their movement. And that's really tragic. — Yaroslav Trofimov