Penguin Randomhouse Quotes

#1. I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you're going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they're going to hit you.

David Lynch

#2. Il ne faut point donner d'esprit a' ses personnages; mais savoir les placer dans des circonstances qui leur en donnent. You should not give wit to your characters, but know instead how to put them in situations which will make them witty.

Denis Diderot

#3. Unfortunately for humanity, God is patient enough to actually enjoy watching the grass grow.

A.E. Samaan

#4. Sticking feathers up your butt,Tyler says,does not make you a chicken

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. I was disquieted to realize that he had ceased to call me anything at all. That seemed impossible, but your children generally use your name when they want something, if only attention, and Kevin was loath to beseech me for so much as a turned head.

Lionel Shriver

#6. No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Christopher Walken

#7. Be persistent and have faith and you can achieve anything.

Martha Hamlett

#8. The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.

Thomas S. Monson

#9. We see the universe the way it is because we exist.

Stephen Hawking

#10. Mindfulness helps you understand that the past is gone, can't be changed and all the lessons are already learned.

Lidiya K.

#11. There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that?

Sarah McLachlan

#12. Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.

George Herbert

#13. The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.

Angela Carter

#14. If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.

Johann Sigurjonsson

#15. They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

Stephen King