Seconder Quotes

#1. My mother pictured a daughter as a counterinsurgent: a fellow lover of lapdogs, a seconder of proposals to attend the Ice Capades. In

Jeffrey Eugenides

#2. Find a pile of gold and sit on it.

John Gardner

#3. If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.

Shakuntala Devi

#4. Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

Rob Pike

#5. Break my heart. Break it in pieces. I give you my permission.

Cassandra Clare

#6. Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

John Goodlad

#7. I like to get everything done during the early morning hours and the early part of the day.

Sune Rose Wagner

#8. Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood
With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear
The weight of mightiest Monarchies his look
Drew audience and attention still as Night
Or Summers Noon-tide air while thus he spake.

John Milton

#9. I don't snack all the time, but I do sometimes drink l more than I should.

Gerard Depardieu

#10. Endlessly amused by people's minds.

Daniel Kahneman

#11. It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used for the Stones or any other kind of outfit that I'm working with. It's just nice to be the boss.

Ronnie Wood

#12. Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.

Horacio Quiroga

#13. In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

Michel Houellebecq

#14. Curiously, there are many perfect short stories, but no perfect novels.

J.G. Ballard