A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
Natsuo Kirino
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It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.
HUGO WEAVING Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as ...
SAM SHEPARD We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more th...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is r...
JESSE VENTURA The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they...
ANDY SERKIS Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. People don't understand how much influence they can actually have on a writer, how much a writer...
THOMAS MCGUANE White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not b...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of direc...
XAVIER DOLAN In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus
MADELEINE L’ENGLE I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writi...
EDWARD ST AUBYN The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A writer is a thought smith; he educates men to think for themselves
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a s...
LAUREN GREENFIELD Truth is like a flower, if you tend to it and leave it in the sunshine, it will blossom into somethi...
ANGIE KARAN Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
GEORGE GERSHWIN It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, r...
NAOMI CAMPBELL Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that b...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood's kind of a throwback...
MONICA POTTER I've done a lot of comedy recently, so I would really like to explore something else. I am hanke...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL We underestimate children and the people who work with them. I swear - so often, I tell people I am ...
KATHI APPELT There's a lot of people who don't want anything from me but to laugh and have a good time. Y...
DAVE CHAPPELLE Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
TED TURNER It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN People want to see someone who looks like they might have this enviable life, but in turn, they are ...
ERIN FOSTER You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say.
“I had to come back early.” Sh...
LISA KLEYPAS I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there&...
HALSEY Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
JAMES JOYCE It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
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