La Soledad Quotes

#1. Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.

Arthur Christiansen

#2. Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.

Tacitus

#3. The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

John Adams

#4. All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

Peter Carey

#5. After all, a right that can't be exercised is not very useful to anyone.

Jessica Valenti

#6. I started creative writing classes at Aberdeen Central Library, and the writer-in-residence there, Todd McEwen, encouraged me a great deal. He showed my stories to his editor, and I thought that was just what happened to everyone who took his classes!

Leila Aboulela

#7. We are all living in some sort of a hell, Elena, all of us, but we don't make someone pay the price for our deeds, do you know why? because everyone of us chooses his own hell, the one that makes him most comfortable.

Juan Jose Millas

#8. Im not gay, but the man in my bed last night was.

Tom DeLonge

#9. Especially in the world today, where science rightfully is so important in terms of technology, innovation, telecom, Internet, fighting diseases, I think it's equally important that poetry and painting have their share of support.

Leon Black

#10. I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

Dick Cavett

#11. Amongst the bitter fruits of life, death is not the worst by a long chalk. the worst is to live far away from oneself

Juan Jose Millas

#12. When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.

Clint Eastwood

#13. How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#14. If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.

Malcolm McDowell

#15. I've been stung by bees before, but it's never been this bad. It's like having PMS bloat throughout my whole body instead of just my midsection.

Cat Patrick

#16. Before you judge me too harshly, consider your own deepest fears - real or imagined. Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent.

Richard Paul Evans

#17. Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.

Robert Duvall