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Related I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I wanted to work during the day. I realized there was more time between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. than there... LEE BETHEL They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p... DEBORAH KERR Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga, Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata... HUSEYN RAZA I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ... AGATHA CHRISTIE Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. ... RICKEY HENDERSON I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don... JACK RUBY I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would no... SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at a... SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I ... SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake." "It's not the end of the world if you do that every n... SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ... SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?" "Ah. The Suriel to... SARAH J. MAAS I learnt how to make candles when I was a kid. My mom used to make them. Then, when I broke my leg o... TWINKLE KHANNA That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day ... JENNIFER GILMORE You can't reinvent the wheel. I remember when we first started out at 'Late Night,' we w... JIMMY FALLON It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing... JUNOT DIAZ Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping ?' 'You're bitching about ... LETA BLAKE why do people rise and fall.. How and when they will get the attentions and why politicians fall whe... SHARIF MOHAMED Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely... DEBORAH KERR I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that pe... ALAN ARKIN I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of... TYGA Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime... STEPHEN FRY Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys." Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To... SARAH J. MAAS Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they? SARAH J. MAAS When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back. SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good. SARAH J. MAAS Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe... SARAH J. MAAS I'm not afraid to eat breakfast at three in the morning. As a kid, I used to go to bed at 8 P.M.... TAYLOR HICKS I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a des... CHRISTOPHER PARKER Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than fo... YAMI GAUTAM I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, f... JAMES GUNN I am never out there just jogging for the heck of it. I never do that. I start to run with a goal in... DREW CAREY I needed to realise my role in the drama and it was only then that I could learn and be better for i... TONY CURL Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming th... WALT DISNEY I've worked with a lot of first time directors; in fact, I enjoy it because there is a certain b... STEPHANIE ALLAIN I don't think it ever occurred to me that I wouldn't be an entrepreneur. My dad became a rea... STEWART BUTTERFIELD I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and me... KATHERINE HEIGL Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya..... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a... HALSTON SAGE I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either. JAIME CONTRERAS There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus... MILDRED D. TAYLOR I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderso... DEBORAH KERR While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. JEFFREY ARCHER A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. “I had to come back early.” Sh... LISA KLEYPAS I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn'... MUDDY WATERS I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious... MARIE OSMOND 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 My childhood was as conventional as you could get. I think I probably created 'Arcadia' with... LAUREN GROFF There's a certain expectation, and I demand that things be done a certain way. Little things make a ... KATHY GIBSON I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really impor... RACHEL KUSHNER Victor invented me, in a way. He gave me a desk and a sponsor and a place to hang my hat, which was ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS People trust the fact that if I'm not at my desk, there's a good reason I'm not at my desk. I don't ... BRIAN LUCAS I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ... PAT BUCKLEY When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... C. JOYBELL C. I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. KITTY O'NEILL COLLINS I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called 'Starry Room' and... JADEN SMITH He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange... DAVID DUCHOVNY I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't... JACK RUBY There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness t... SARAH J. MAAS
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I'm Mother Courage ELIZABETH TAYLOR There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g... ELIZABETH WARREN The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it re... ELIZABETH BOWEN Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. ELIZABETH BOWEN Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. ELIZABETH BOWEN When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ELIZABETH BOWEN The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it... ELIZABETH BOWEN The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicate... ELIZABETH HARDWICK Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked. ELIZABETH BERG Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No... ELIZABETH FLOCK People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn... ELIZABETH GILBERT You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T... ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai... ELIZABETH GILBERT The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating ELIZABETH SCOTT The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy o... ELIZABETH GILBERT The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing... ELIZABETH ALDER You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta ... ELIZABETH GILBERT To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o... ELIZABETH GILBERT Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, b... ELIZABETH WINDER I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and w... ELIZABETH GILBERT But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling... ELIZABETH GILBERT Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone. ELIZABETH GILBERT Instructions for freedom": 1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions. 2. You have just cl... ELIZABETH GILBERT Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet throug... ELIZABETH KOSTOVA The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be... ELIZABETH GILBERT At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you. ELIZABETH GILBERT One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny... ELIZABETH GILBERT How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly. ELIZABETH GASKELL Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa... ELIZABETH WEIN