Wallace Stegner Quotes
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Wallace Stegner
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Tab Hunter -
The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
Jack Lemmon -
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
Ian Somerhalder -
I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
Kate Moss -
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
Carl Van Vechten -
Women drive box office.
Octavia Spencer
-
I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
Laini Taylor -
If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
Patrick deWitt -
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
Queen Elizabeth II -
There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
Carlene Carter -
Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
Ian K. Smith
-
Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
Yitzhak Rabin -
When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
Eddie Marsan -
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
Federica Mogherini -
I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
Aaron Sorkin -
The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
Ted Sarandos
-
'Do I look like someone who has something to do here on Earth?' - That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.
Emil Cioran -
When things are good, you should be thanking God. I don't do enough of that. But if you get things, you should thank Him, not just take, take, take. He really listens.
George Michael Ward Jr. -
Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.
Patrick O'Brian -
I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light.
Kyle Chandler -
...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Wallace Stegner