Seldomly Quotes

#1. We begin to lie to ourselves about our situation, and start feeling trapped--blaming society usually commences. But people seldomly realize that we are society, therefore we set the traps up for ourselves.

Tristan Stone Williams

#2. Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. I would quit while you're ahead. Really. It's an awful field. Just torture. Awful. You write and you write, and you have to throw almost all of it away because it's not any good. I would say just stop now. You don't want to do this to yourself. That's my advice to you.

Philip Roth

#4. What T. S. Eliot said: When all is said and done the writer may realize that he has wasted his youth and wrecked his health for nothing.

Jenny Offill

#5. When he touches me, I feel like everywhere his skin meets mine is changed by the connection. It sends a thrill through my stomach. Not just fear. Something else, too. A wanting.

Veronica Roth

#6. Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.

David Lauren

#7. Don't be afraid of the darkness in it, in yourself.

Lorna Jane Cook

#8. Looks delicious," he lied. "A mite crispy along the edges - but then, I like it that way."
Incredulous eyes met his own. "You like your potatoes burned?"
Ah, so he'd been right about that. If he could still recognize what it was she'd cooked, then surely he could eat it.

Tracy Anne Warren

#9. When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experience. It's coming at your body. There's light, there's sound, the lights in some pieces are going on and off. There's loud roaring sound happening.

Bill Viola

#10. In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

Beryl Markham