Frank Morrison Spillane (Mickey Spillane) Quotes
The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.Frank Morrison Spillane
Quotes to Explore
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
F. H. Bradley -
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
Candace Camp -
One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
Tablo -
It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
Walker Stapleton -
I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
Laura Harrier -
I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
Iman
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
Said Nursi -
Focus on remedies, not faults.
Jack Nicklaus -
I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
Wale -
I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
Rachael Ray -
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
Wendell Pierce -
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
Beck -
My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
Rachel Zoe -
My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there's this monster - this tiger or lion - that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't matter if they become men or women.
Frances McDormand -
In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova -
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
Fay Weldon
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In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?
Valmiki -
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie -
I do find that people are incredibly naive about what it is to be a writer. Like you would pay an incredible amount of money for an MFA program and still not have the slightest idea of how one goes about becoming a writer. So, I'm always flabbergasted when people say, "Oh, I was invited to do a reading, but I'm not going to read because I don't have a book.".
Faith Adiele -
Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.
Melina Mercouri -
When people show you who they are ... believe them!
Oprah Winfrey -
The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.
Frank Morrison Spillane