Reversals Of Fortune Quotes

#1. After so many reversals of fortune today, they half expected a meteorite to hurtle from the sky and vaporize them if they dared to move. Finally,

Gordon Korman

#2. When you talk about this trip, and you will, because it was quite a journey and you witnessed many things, there were ups and downs, sudden reversals of fortune and last-minute escapes, it was really something, you will see your friends nod in recognition.

Colson Whitehead

#3. He needed time to adjust to real life, where heroes and villains could not be told apart by their looks or their accents, where there were no last minute reversals of fortune.

Laila Lalami

#4. Wisdom's daughter walks alone.
That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. It meant without any special powers.

Rick Riordan

#5. You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#6. Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

John Osborne

#7. If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.

Henry A. Kissinger

#8. Love lasts only for months, sometimes only for minutes. But if you like somebody, it's for a lifetime!

Mickey Rooney

#9. I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

Orson Welles

#10. All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a social box by someone else.

J.R. Ward

#11. With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.

Alison Sweeney

#12. Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know about the history of Spain, write about the history of Spain - fiction or nonfiction. If your fascinated by the old west, maybe your character lives there.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#13. . . . it's part of the adventure!

Cat McMahon