Deeney Watford Quotes

#1. He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

Lord Byron

#2. I was never into candy and games and clowns.

Harry Shearer

#3. Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

Alec-Tweedie

#4. It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

Errol Flynn

#5. All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

#6. The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

Janet Fitch

#7. I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'

Rosie Perez

#8. Time is a ribbon, a delicate organdy, so thin that you can see through it to the layer of time below and the layer above. Moments overlapping, lying on top of each other.

Laura Whitcomb

#9. When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys.

Erma Bombeck

#10. I don't need to know how tough I am to know how tough I am.

Roddy Piper

#11. Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Robert Teeter

#13. I can and will improve the world.
I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.
I refuse to be unhappy.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. I finally figured out that it doesn't matter what other people want to read. It matters what you want to write. You write the story that you would want to read, and then fans will come. If you love what you write, others will too.

Jami Montgomery