Bedriye Kazancigil Quotes

#1. The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.

Aleksandar Hemon

#2. It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, 'Know thyself,' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

George Eliot

#3. A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Italo Calvino

#4. The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too ...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#5. Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

Robin Williams

#6. Everybody is a dumb blonde at heart.

Jessica Simpson

#7. My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen, it's time to start lunch, and by the time you've done that, you're doing dinner and thinking, 'There has to be a menu we can order from.'

Julia Roberts

#8. Moving to Turkey was the turning point in my life.

Tarkan

#9. Love yourself; you won't regret it ever.

M.F. Moonzajer

#10. The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.

Ezra Taft Benson

#11. A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.

Will Rogers

#12. There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.

Brander Matthews