Peggy Randall-Martin > Peggy's Quotes

“I have been to hell & back so many times I must admit you kinda bore me," by Ray Lamontagne "Empty.”
― Ray Lamontagne

“I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.”
― Dorothy Parker, Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

“My love runs by like a day in June,
And he makes no friends of sorrows.
He'll tread his galloping rigadoon
In the pathway of the morrows.
He'll live his days where the sunbeams start,
Nor could storm or wind uproot him.
My own dear love, he is all my heart, --
And I wish somebody'd shoot him.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperienced whose whims change with the direction of the wind.”
― Peggy Randall-Martin

“Life doesn't begin at forty, it begins when you are no longer afraid to live it.”
― Peggy Randall-Martin, Life Doesn't Begin at Forty

“Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn....”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

“I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.”
― stephen king, Dolores Claiborne

“I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.”
― Steven Wright

“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
― Steven Wright

“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
― Steven Wright

“If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you.”
― Steven Wright

“If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?”
― Steven Wright

“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”
― Steven Wright

“When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.”
― Steven Wright

“It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.”
― Steven Wright

“I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.”
― Steven Wright

“Why isn’t the word “phonetically” spelled with an “f”?”
― Steven Wright

“The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?”
― Steven Wright

“Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.”
― Steven Wright

“I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.”
― Steven Wright