Carswell Dist Quotes

#1. I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Jane Austen

#2. I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

Duane Michals

#3. Love at first sight. I don't believe in that shit. Weird, huh? Yeah, but the Little Drummer Boy has been fucked over too many times before. The fairytale only lasts so long as reality doesn't come stomping through to smash it.

C.M. Stunich

#4. Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image that reverberates.

Louise Erdrich

#6. We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

Edward De Bono

#7. The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.

Lauren Oliver

#8. In many respects, we really are trying to not run the Social Office like a business, but we do have a strategy. We do have a mission. We are trying to standardize certain things so that our time is not spent on, you know, picking flowers or linens, that we've got standards.

Desiree Rogers

#9. A man who can seduce with a turn of phrase will not disappoint in the bedroom.

Adriana Trigiani

#10. Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.

Mason Cooley