Bruno Taut Quotes

#1. Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#2. People only really live when they're about to die," he said. "Before then it's all a waste. You don't appreciate how good it is until you're really in the shit.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#3. You know,' I whispered, 'some girls might think it's creepy having a boy watch them sleep.' He smirked and pointed to himself. 'Spy.' 'Oh.' I nodded. 'Right. So you're a trained Peeping Tom.' 'Product of the best peeping academies in the country.' 'Well, now I feel much better.' 'You should.

Ally Carter

#4. If and perhaps ... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

John Flanagan

#5. That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.

Barbara Hershey

#6. Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

Anne Stevenson

#7. Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength.

Kimberly Elise

#8. Young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations ... Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up

Ken Robinson

#9. You face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need to create a compressed drama over two hours.

Paul Greengrass

#10. Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Ulysses S. Grant

#11. The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

Ice-T