John Pym Quotes

#1. Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of your approval. I'm a cat person. I like a little aloofness in my pets and my writing.

Alden Bell

#2. You don't become ruthless with hugs and kisses. It is pain that makes us.

J.J. McAvoy

#3. The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself.

John Hookham Frere

#4. Fears drive us backwards.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.

Raymond Queneau

#6. That's brilliant."
"I thought so. But I'm glad you agree. It will make this journey much more pleasant if you are impressed with my brilliance.

Sarah Beth Durst

#7. My love is like a magical dancing spirit. It is mighty but affable; invisible but infinite.

Debasish Mridha

#8. If you're not passionate about what you want to do, you won't be good at it.

Sid Haig

#9. It's funny now, trying to socialise with people. There's this cautiousness about people which I just find really weird.

Robert Pattinson

#10. However romantically ill John might look, it seemed that he had nothing worse than an unromantic cold.

Barbara Pym

#11. A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.

John Pym

#12. It's spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod - Small letters sent To her from God.

John Updike

#13. There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words.

Arca

#14. I'm always ready for TV. I don't have to edit my jokes - when you work clean, you can work anywhere.

Gabriel Iglesias

#15. Why is ground round sold in a square package?

Neil Leckman

#16. People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.

Kristen Stewart