Soeurs Violet Quotes

#1. It turns out Enron workers were not only shredding documents at work, they were having sex at work. Having sex and shredding documents. Those are two things you don't want to get mixed up.

Jay Leno

#2. Your Cans must always be bigger than your can NOTS!

Greg Gilbert

#3. It is easy to design devices that work well when everything goes as planned. The hard and necessary part of design is to make things work well even when things do not go as planned.

Donald A. Norman

#4. Helpless as a burning city, / how can I ignore that the extremes / of pleasure are fire storms / that leave a vacuum into which / dangerous feelings (tenderness, / affection, l o v e) may rush / like gale force winds.

Marge Piercy

#5. I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me ... I'm the one happening.

Denis Johnson

#6. I saw Diana shake her head, "Jonathon, we're here for you. Stop being a butt head."
We all started laughing. I was bent over at the waist with tears running out of my eyes.
Mason said, "Did you seriously just say 'butt head'?"
Diana blushed, "Well, he was being a butt head.

Micalea Smeltzer

#7. Fortunate is the person who can succeed in extracting honey from such a flower as this life, whose root and every petal is bitterness.

Lynn Cullen

#8. Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. To be anorexic ... she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She could understand that now for, maybe underneath that desquamated self you would locate a new version.

Meg Wolitzer

#10. You truly are the worst sort of woman, Pimlico." What?

Pepper Winters

#11. Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

Susan Sontag

#12. Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.

Shirley Jackson

#13. There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer.

Robin Williams

#14. I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

Michael Connelly