Turnbuckle Shelf Quotes

#1. I'm 30, it's Christmas, and I'm a writer without a job. I sit here
engulfed in a furious fit of frustration. My future unknown. My
nuts so small you could fit them in a gnat's navel and have room
left over for my brain.

Josh Mitchell

#2. The moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

John Dewey

#3. Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

Julie Bishop

#4. At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

Leonard Woolf

#5. It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

Richard Donner

#6. We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

Sherry Turkle

#7. Mac has a sexy breakfast story." "Really?" Eyebrows lifted, Parker set the syrup and butter on the table of the breakfast nook. "Tell all." "It began, and sexy tales often do, when I spilled Diet Coke on my shirt.

Nora Roberts

#8. The city was in a panic, though a panic in Italy means most people still stand around coffee bars drinking espresso and Prosecco.

Magnus Flyte

#9. He's lying. She's lying. And before long, they're lying. Together. In bed...

Tawny Weber

#10. I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

Bobby Short

#11. For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as well as citizenship, civilization, faith, and the whole notion of the true, the good, and the faithful.

Os Guinness