Duchemin Optician Quotes

#1. Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.

Kevin Kwan

#2. I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything.

Raymond Blanc

#3. I think authors like me are always struggling with the idea that they should have a brand and a Facebook author page and they should get Twitter accounts. I don't know what to do with them.

Lynn Coady

#4. Listen ... You could spend a lifetime trying to understand the works of evil men. Their joys are not ours. They love to inflict pain, create suffering, cause harm and death. It empowers them, for beneath the skin they are empty and worthless.

David Gemmell

#5. Jemima Jane Erickson was one drunken pass away from jumping Ethan Weston's bones. He just didn't know it.

Amy Andrews

#6. I think it's safe to say people are going to be interested in Kim Kardashian's love choices for the next 30 years. But they can take a minute to think about the new robotic arm that could replace the one they lost to cancer. Then they can keep thinking about Kim Kardashian.

James Woods

#7. This is the end. For me the beginning of life.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#8. And it interests him less to have the world reinvented; he wants it explained.

Ian McEwan

#9. A fecking flamethrower! Why didn't I think of that? Best I came up with was a measly hair dryer.

Karen Marie Moning

#10. Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

Tony Abbott

#11. Every time you win a cup it's special, but it's a dream come true when it happens at a club where you started in the youth set-up, surrounded by friends who formed an incredible generation of players.

Clarence Seedorf

#12. She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.

Rachel Cusk