from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
Sandra Cisneros
I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.
Jon Crosby
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
W. Somerset Maugham
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
John le Carre
I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
Charles Simeon
Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.
Roger Mudd
A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
Jonathan Raban
Michael Korda
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
Sandra Cisneros
I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.
Jon Crosby
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
W. Somerset Maugham
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
John le Carre
I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
Charles Simeon
Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.
Roger Mudd
A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
Jonathan Raban