Noticings In Literature Quotes

#1. How could a person be clumsy, just standing? And yet she felt she was, as clumsy as one of those blocks of boxwood being seasoned there, unshaped, indelicate.

Margo Lanagan

#2. The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.

Jessica Lynch

#3. I doubt he'd give me the smell from his farts - no, tell a lie: in that one respect he's being more than generous.

Ian Rankin

#4. Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

Tana French

#5. I was very much surprised by the Johnson/Gove proposals to make it harder for Europeans to work in the U.K. if Britain were to vote to leave the E.U.

Mark Rutte

#6. People can be really mean - they say the most vicious things.

Rutina Wesley

#7. You have to eliminate the low-hanging targets first, on the off chance you were dealing with morons.

John Scalzi

#8. I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.

Paddy Considine

#9. Or, Most of the time when you open your mouth, make known the gospel. But if you're feeling really, really hurt, rally other people around your cause and make this other person look as bad as you can.

Lysa TerKeurst

#10. I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

Daniel Alarcon

#11. I don't want costumes and makeup between me and the audience - I want more direct communication. There's something for me about being honest on stage, and I'm at my most honest when I'm behind a piano. So I prefer my concert performances.

Jason Robert Brown

#12. I wish I can enjoy no food but food for thought.

Kedar Joshi