Pipestem Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them. — Tamora Pierce

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. "Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are ha!" Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe "no more than robots! — Iain Banks

I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up. — Poppy Montgomery

I wish you had fucked her. Then you'd know. Then you'd know the sublime ... Her asshole, for example. It's like a stern coquettish spoiled secretary working for Himmler - — Glen Duncan

An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas. — Henri Matisse

Apocalyptic literature was created to speak in a powerful way and with a dramatic seriousness that would match the sense of hopelessness and terror that can easily grip a generation in the midst of a profound crisis. — William J. Abraham

I was born for better things. — Barry Unsworth

The only plan I have is to not do anything I don't want to do - and to never work just for money. — Chris Rock

There's no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem. — Shaquille O'Neal