Steupse Quotes

#1. Trinidad's language is a fusion of English, African, and French, and so we have our own words and even our own dictionary. Steupse is a common local word, and it's the onomatopoeic word for the sound people make to show disapproval, or to show they are vexed, when they suck their teeth together.

Monique Roffey

#2. What we need to do, as writers, is find out where our market is and adapt to it. I'm not saying that you follow every trend slavishly, but what you see is that, if there is a sea-change in the way that things are being done, then you account for it.

John Scalzi

#3. But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.

Naomi Wood

#4. As knowing God becomes more important to you, you will stop thinking about discouragements and persecutions; you will stop worrying altogether

Sunday Adelaja

#5. The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

Harold Jeffreys

#6. William: What's your nickname?
Maddox: I do not have one.
William I'm happy to give you one. Captain Ass. What do you think?
Maddox: I can leave.
William: New nickname: Big Baby. Anyway, let's continue ...

Gena Showalter

#7. She was not a dog person. She was not a cat person, fish person, or horse person. On bad days, she was barely a people person. She ate meat, wore leather, and secretly coveted her mother's old mink.

Laura Lippman

#8. How would he write without her? [The buried awareness of how completely her hands reached into his work; don't look, Lotto. It'd be like looking at the sun.]

Lauren Groff

#9. Don't argue with a man, especially when you know you can beat him.

Harper Lee

#10. I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

Anthony Bourdain

#11. I like the sound a typewriter makes.

Paul Auster

#12. Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle