Glenroe Miley Quotes

#1. It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.

Steven Heighton

#2. Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

Paul Cezanne

#3. The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

Haruki Murakami

#4. It turns out that you can blow life off for as long as you want, but you still have to take the finals.

Tim Kreider

#5. Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.

Jules Verne

#6. If that's true and the rate stays like that for another 40 years, there's a good probability that somebody who is active in the credit economy for that period of time might be a victim. But that's not a given.

Keith Anderson

#7. He especially enjoyed watching Mrs. Sen as she chopped things, seated on newspapers on the living room floor. Instead of a knife she used a blade that curved like the prow of a Viking ship, sailing to battle in distant seas. The blade was hinged at one end to a narrow wooden base.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#8. The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.

John Cheever

#9. So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!

Edgar Bergen

#10. You can only fall in love once the next time you rise with it

Amit Abraham

#11. For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.

Michael Bay