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“We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.”
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“People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.”
Source : Georgette Heyer (2010). “Death in the Stocks”, p.43, Random House
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“Find good in what the world says is evil.”
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“Faith moves mountains, if faith were easy there would be no mountains.”
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“Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.”
Source : "Talk Asia" with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.
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“I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need solitude, and seek alienation of a kind every day of their working lives. (And remember, they are not even aware when and when not they are working.) ... The tension between standing apart and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.”
Source : Nadine Gordimer (1983). “Selected Stories”, Viking Press
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“My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Instead of looking for a true friend become a true friend.”