Quotes About Melveny

#1. I felt that I was burning underwater.

Regina O'Melveny

#2. Hope was a plain thing for her, common as bread.

Regina O'Melveny

#3. If you don't try at anything, you can't fail ... it takes back bone to lead the life you want

Richard Yates

#4. The recitation of grievances was strange balm.

Regina O'Melveny

#5. Wellesley's president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college archives for anyone to read - except for those written by either a 'president or first lady of the United States.'

Bill Dedman

#6. I had a very linear story line for this particular play, and I wanted to open the piece up a bit, so I started doing that with my writing. I would describe fragments of scenes on index cards, then move the card around to see how it changed the piece.

Philip Kan Gotanda

#7. When we take too long to forgive the people we love, we can sometimes be too damn late for it to matter.

Monika Basile

#8. It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit.

Regina O'Melveny

#9. Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Anthony Weiner

#10. For it was beautiful upon our tongues and we traced all the lines to the heart.

Regina O'Melveny

#11. The impetuous wind can ignite the fire or put it out.

Regina O'Melveny

#12. Beauty comes to us more readily on a full belly.

Regina O'Melveny

#13. She'd always perceived the world to be against her. Happiness was never to be trusted. And yet I thought vaguely, neither was sorrow. Didn't each come to season in the other?

Regina O'Melveny

#14. Yet there in the library, Hamish and I climbed the bright ladder of the body, as if it were sky and we a deafening. twisting flock of birds that could never fall to earth.

Regina O'Melveny

#15. One must stand apart in order to truly know another.

Regina O'Melveny

#16. A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

Voltaire

#17. Everything changes when you make a decision to be one of the courageous ones, someone who chooses to make a life, rather than a living.

Neale Donald Walsch

#18. I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.

David Nail

#19. When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

Arundhati Roy

#20. No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.

Linus Pauling

#21. I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists.

Regina O'Melveny