William Lyon Phelps Quotes
The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.
William Lyon Phelps
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
Karin Slaughter
The surface is all you get of me.
Gary Hume
I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
Victoria Pendleton
America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
Wayne Grady
Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham
For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.
Lily James
People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.
Jamie Dornan
Life is short,and pleasures few,and holed the ship,and drowned the crew,But O! But O!How very bluethe sea is!
Clive Barker
The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.
William Lyon Phelps