Lodato Old Quotes

#1. When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

Fanny Fern

#2. The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.

George Herman

#3. You make it sound so simple." "Well, it's war; it's not rocket science." Then the memory of what had once been accomplished by three Marines with a surface-to-air missile launcher, a game chip, and the guts from a field kitchen twisted her mouth into a grin. "Usually," she repeated.

Tanya Huff

#4. why can't I do what others have done - ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It's hard enough just to do that in this world.

Octavia E. Butler

#5. Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story

Cassandra Clare

#6. Imagine truth as a chain of great mountains, their tops way up in the clouds. Writers explore these truths, always looking out for new paths up these peaks.

Jess Walter

#7. In my experience, committees can criticize, but they cannot create. 'Search the parks in all your cities You'll find no statues of committees.

David Ogilvy

#8. And then it changed. I wasn't letting him anymore. He was taking, pawing, grabbing. I pushed, I cried out, I squirmed, but like I said it's a shitty game and he didn't feel like playing by the rules anymore.

Taylor Rhodes

#9. Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

Dinesh D'Souza

#10. If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

Ned Rorem

#11. Sometimes she worried that her love for Edgar was too strong, a covetous earthly love, a love against God, a love to reclaim lost things. But what love wasn't that? What love wasn't a reward to counter an old wrong? Anyway, it wasn't something she could control. How

Victor Lodato

#12. There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal balance of armaments ... [but] true and lasting peace among nations cannot consist in the possession of an equal supply of armaments but only in mutual trust.

Pope John XXIII

#13. In writing there are many secrets too. Nothing is ever lost no matter how it seems at the time and what is left out will always show and make the strength of what is left in.

Ernest Hemingway,

#14. I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

Liz Phair