Officially Licensed Quotes

#1. I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

Dani Shapiro

#2. Sevier County is a great area.

Dolly Parton

#3. Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.

Nigella Lawson

#4. Father worked behind closed doors inside the house, had a huge ancient Latin dictionary on a wrought-iron stand, spoke Spanish on the phone, and drank sherry and ate raw meat, in the form of chorizo, at five o'clock. Until the day in the yard with my

Alice Sebold

#5. We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

Amartya Sen

#6. Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

Richard Branson

#8. To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

Ryan Phillippe

#9. They say that I am a poet I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottle emotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle on distant shores I am unsure as to whether they ever reach and for that matter as to whether I ever get my point across or my love

Saul Williams

#10. He gripped the back of her neck again in that purely dominating way that made her melt. "We're finishing this when we get back." His voice was a low, raspy growl.

Katie Reus

#11. Without my family I would be nothing.

Jennifer Lawrence

#12. Until next time, DeMalo says softly.

Moira Young

#13. Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness.

Pope Francis

#14. With independent film, simply because they don't have the money to make a big-budget film, they're forced to make a story that's important to them, that they would like to see on film, a personal story that people can relate to, about people, where you can see the love of the characters.

Seymour Cassel

#15. Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

Madeleine Albright