Quotes About Friendly Rivalry

#1. I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.

Harlan Coben

#2. Even with my skin and tits, though, it's still Mel who looks better. She's got psoriasis and a mustache she has to bleach and still. It's definitely Mel who has any hope in hell with any of the boys we like.

Mona Awad

#3. My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on.

Jamie Wyeth

#4. But cruel fate had not finished with us yet. My colleague's gasps and grunts from the rear ceased for a moment to be replaced by a horrified shriek. The bloody thing's shitting, Jim! She's shitting everywhere!

James Herriot

#5. We take much for granted, much that is granted by others, and we're told to do as we're told, and we agree. And we must agree.

Zia Haider Rahman

#6. On God's calendar, there are no ordinary days.

David McGee

#7. I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

Felicity Kendal

#8. Love isn't the expectation that eventually you'll end up in heartache; it's the expectation that you can fully trust another human being with everything and still hope for a happy ending.

Rachel Van Dyken

#9. You know this is a dicey situation anyway you look at it.

Joe Teti

#10. If you put a bunch of chameleons on top of a bunch of chameleons on top of a bowl of Skittles what would happen? Is that science? Because if so, I finally get why people want to do science.

Jenny Lawson

#11. No. I'm here because you told me to come home. But we both know I won't truly be home until I'm back between your sheets, Professor. He

Ella Frank