Ethel M. Dell Quotes

People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

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• Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Simplicity
  • Reliability

• It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Great
  • Book
  • Single

• I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • London

• The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Society
  • Support
  • Marriage

• No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Happy
  • Human

• Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Depression
  • Loss
  • Despair

• So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful
  • Scene

• No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Real
  • Law

• It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Beautiful
  • Past
  • Artist

• Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Black
  • Heaven

• Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • World
  • Faith
  • Bridge

• I'm deeply concerned. And I think, in many ways, the Trump presidency poses a clear and present danger to our country and to the world.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Trump
  • Danger

• What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Books
  • Read
  • University

• It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took so long and took so much out of me, that when I finished it, I was like, Oh my gosh, I feel like I've poured everything from myself into this, and then I'd get depressed for a week. And then once I was ready to write a new story, I would want to write about something that was completely different, so I would search for a totally different character with a different set of circumstances.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Circumstances

• A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird's nest of shiny things. Little things that don't make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.

  

  Molly O'Keefe
  • Inspiration
  • Finished
  • Cannot

• People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

  

  Ethel M. Dell
  • Finished
  • Store
  • Way Of Thinking