Treasured Item Quotes

#1. I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

Felicity Jones

#3. I am humiliated in my need, even to myself.

Hope Jahren

#4. You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#5. Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Izaak Walton

#6. Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

Paulo Coelho

#7. I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

David O. Russell

#8. I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Look, I really appreciate your helping with the med-droids, and I'm sure the best mechanic in the city has a million jobs to prioritize, but at the risk of sounding like a spoiled prince, could I ask that you move Nainsi to the top of your list?

Marissa Meyer

#10. Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

Robert Benchley

#11. Love does not conquer all.

Bill Maher

#12. Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.

Tina Fey

#13. But you also admitted to her being in the shadows and not having a clear view of him."
"What would be his motive?"
"Perhaps he saw me kissing Mary."
"Killing the man for kissing your betrothed seems a bit drastic."
I would, he thought, surprised by the vehement behind the words.

Lorraine Heath