Zdunek Donald Quotes & Sayings

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world. — Zadie Smith

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together. — Rosie O'Donnell

We sometimes confuse sin with sinner, and we condemn too quickly and with too little compassion. We know from modern revelation that 'the worth of souls is great in the sight of God.' We cannot gauge the worth of another soul any more than we can measure the span of the universe. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven't sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation. — Warren Ellis

A man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman
any woman
with beautiful legs. — Marlene Dietrich

Your see, it is no ordinary task. If you translate, say, the Summa of St. Thomas, you expect to be cross-examined by people who understand philosophy and by people who understand Latin; no one else. If you translate the Bible, you are liable to be cross-examined by anybody; because everybody thinks he knows already what the Bible means. — Ronald Knox

Noa had been a sensitive child who had believed that if he followed all the rules and was the best, then somehow, the hostile world would change its mind. His death may have been her fault for having allowed him to believe such cruel ideals — Min Jin Lee

I owe you everything." "Uh ... wow." "I owe all of you everything." "But mostly me," Fletcher said. — Derek Landy

But are there really good people? Good people, through and through? Or are we all just varying versions of bad people, some trying harder to be good? — Anna Banks

Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare. — Tina Brown