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american-novelist musicality point
The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. Rick Moody
american-novelist time tour
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. Richard Russo
american-novelist create decorative exotic material
With my gaudy, exotic material I wanted to create large, dreamy constructions that would not be decorative but powerfully expressive. Edmund White
american-novelist exhibit form masses men public substitute usual vice
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. James F. Cooper
american-novelist imaginary ingenuity leaving office safety skills test
Through Kinsey, I get to test my ingenuity and my skills with imaginary firearms... all without leaving the safety of my office chair. Sue Grafton
american-novelist assertion doubly human humor insults known
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. Sinclair Lewis
american-novelist destroyed man
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway
american-novelist behavior best enter extremely human life nuances realm
Life is extremely complicated. I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior and alternatives of that behavior. Robert Ludlum
american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
flies flying love shadow substance
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. William Shakespeare
flies
She will, and she will not - she grants, denies,-Consents, retracts, advances, and then flies George Granville
flies god juan
Juan Jose Alfonso now flies with God -- I am sure.
flies thomas
He's a Thomas Howard-like linebacker who just flies around.
flies hurt pitiful poor says tease
Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.'' Elizabeth Barrett Browning
flies kentucky might monday odds second worse
He flies to Kentucky Monday morning. Odds for the Kentucky Derby? I think he will be no worse than second choice. Of course, I might have a bias.
flies love poverty proverbs
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.
flies man notice passes swiftly time whether
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. Ivan Turgenev
flies fun last time
Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last 30 years. Pete Conrad
leaves terrorists
He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing. Tom Tancredo
leaves pleased puts sour taste
We are not pleased with the outcome, it leaves a real sour taste in our mouths. But it puts things in perspective.
leaves time time-and-time-management work
There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time. Coco Chanel
leaves life messed point
Very often at the end of 'The Sopranos' you get the feeling that its not under control, you should be very worried, and life is kind of really, really messed up at lot of times. It leaves you feeling very disconcerted. That was kind of the point of it. Terence Winter
leaves
Every story takes its toll on me and leaves an impression on me. Lynsey Addario
leaves likely mostly
Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks. Yotam Ottolenghi
leaves suspicious
I'm a little suspicious of the great, overarching view. It always leaves something out. Tracy Kidder
leaves legacy strong
He leaves a strong legacy for the country. Steve Clarke
leaves
I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold. Stephen Hunter
shadow awful degrees
As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself! Charles Dickens
shadow ordinary encounters
If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment. Chris Abani
shadow prestige money-and-power
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. C. Wright Mills
shadow
somethings can only be seen in the shadows Carlos Ruiz Zafon
shadow towns monsters
I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them. Catherynne M. Valente
shadow release
Your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you Bill Johnson
shadow world spotlight
Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path. Beth Moore
shadow shy adulation
I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation. Bill Wyman
shadow
We're going to have to shadow someone else.
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. Charles Caleb Colton
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.