Sydney Bell Quotes

#1. Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

Juvenal

#2. Sorry, but all I can think about are those people who were stranded in the snow and had to eat one another.

J. Lynn

#3. My sadistic husband has a soft side, too, and even though he likes to inflict pain on me, I know he would never hurt me beyond what I can handle.

Ella Dominguez

#4. I thought of Pericles' speech to the families of the Athenian war dead, in which he said, What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Eric Greitens

#5. (Regarding check-cashing places):
It's hitting me how poor this really is: I'm standing in a long line to pay someone to give me my pay. So, technically, they get paid before I do, and it's my damn check.

Angela Nissel

#6. 'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself, and learn to take life a lot less seriously.

Sydney Wayser

#7. I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

Lukas Haas

#8. I read that a gentleman gives a lady flowers, and I thought maybe I'm not a gentleman, but no reason not to treat you like a lady.

Shannon Hale

#9. I made my own fictional land, which is 'Bell Choir Coast.' It was a response to feeling really, really lost, and it was what I was looking for.

Sydney Wayser

#10. Yesterday's poets are today's detectives. They spend a life sniffing out the hundredth line, wrapping up a case, and limping exhausted into the sunset.

Patti Smith

#11. What I needed was to lose myself in a good book, one with tons of sex and angst, complete with an unbelievable happily-ever-after that made me love and hate the book at the same time.

J. Lynn

#12. The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.

Mary-Lou Weisman

#13. Supposedly has been on a two-day bender, and today is the first day the guy has been sober. So whatever went down obviously didn't end with a Disney happily-ever-after. All I have to say is that you need to tell me what is up and it better include some rated-R stuff.

J. Lynn

#14. We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Olive Schreiner

#15. [ ... ] I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature, stifle half my faculties, wrest my tastes from their original bent, force myself to the adoption of pursuits for which I had no natural vocation.

Charlotte Bronte