Treasure Island Setting Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy. — Edna Ferber

Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself. — Saul Perlmutter

A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is . It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two. — Madeleine L'Engle

I'm thin-skinned in a way that's just dumb. — Sarah Koenig

I sometimes wonder why I pushed myself so relentlessly in weight lifting. My motive, I think, was not an uncommon one; I was not the ninety-eight-pound weakling of bodybuilding advertisements, but I was timid, diffident, insecure, submissive. I became strong - very strong - with all my weight lifting but found that this did nothing for my character, which remained exactly the same. — Oliver Sacks

He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken. — Francoise Sagan

It is no secret that the world hates Christianity; but when the world runs out of options, they desperately look for God. — Felix Wantang

I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter. — Robert Caro

My advice to young writers would be to write every day, even if it is only a few words. Get yourself on the habit of writing and it will become a lifelong one. And find a place to write where you are physically comfortable. You can't concentrate if you aren't. Ernest Hemingway could only write standing up, and Truman Capote could only write lying down! — Cassandra Clare