One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: ‘You put bad words in your books, don’t you?’ No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: ‘Well, you’ll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.’ Jill McCorkle Read Quote
I think I’m a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don’t only believe in God, I know there’s God. Ernest Gaines Read Quote
It’s much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict. Mo Rocca Read Quote
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt? Giordano Bruno Read Quote
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more. Georges Clemenceau Read Quote
I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys’ toys; I don’t remember owning any dolls. Diana Rigg Read Quote
