"There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air."

-- Fran Lebowitz

#Air Quotes #Graves Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.”
“Don't underestimate the value of beginning a headline by naming the people you want to reach.”
“It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.”
“Do something that surprises yourself cause if you don't surprise yourself, you're not going to surprise anybody else.”
“Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words.”
“I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children.”

Source : "Christie Brinkley: Not My American Sweetheart" by Jane Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2008.
“Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.”
“The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.”

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