Longmans Quotes

#1. Plot might seem to be a matter of choice. It is not. The particular plot is something the novelist is driven to: it is what is left after the whittling-away of alternatives.' Elizabeth Bowen opened her Notes on Writing a Novel (1945, reprinted in Collected Impressions, Longmans, Green & Co.,

Elizabeth Bowen

#2. Something about the beauty of the library and how many books there were made me feel really eager to read, and I couldn't wait to get some free time so I could go back there and explore.

Francine Prose

#3. Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that.

Monica Seles

#4. I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well. I only wish my words could just convince myself that it just wasn't real. But that's not the way it feels.

Jim Croce

#5. Mrs Hacker was the only woman present. They'd made her a sort of honorary man for the evening.

Jonathan Lynn

#6. Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: 'Open Bar.'

William E. Geist

#7. The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

Sally Ride

#8. The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Walt Whitman

#9. I did learn that standing by your principles is always the right call, even when dealing with people in positions of power.

Megyn Kelly

#10. I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.

Cate Blanchett

#11. To some degree, Hollywood doesn't know what to do with me because the characters I do are so different. But hopefully, that will give me longevity.

Sharlto Copley

#12. I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

Princess Diana

#13. Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses.
Write not again, but come, sweet mate

Ovid

#14. The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we're not bothered by these.

Peg O'Connor