Best I Sent Quotes
89 I Sent quotes by 83 unique authors
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I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I…
— Ali Smith
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With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the…
— Brooklyn Decker
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I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the…
— Bharati Mukherjee
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There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear…
— David Wolpe
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Early in my career when we went to golf tournaments and charity dinners I noticed businessmen and executives would give the players their cards. Well,…
— Tie Domi
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I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
— Bette Davis
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I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
— Elizabeth I
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Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that…
— Anne Lamott
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When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect…
— Ang Lee
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I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and…
— Haruki Murakami
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When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it…
— Sarah Palin
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When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a…
— Katie Price
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I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it,…
— Francoise Sagan
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those…
— Carl Sandburg
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
— Mark Twain
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Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The…
— Kim Harrison
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A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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So I sent Halt to straighten matters out. Thought it might be a good idea to give him something to keep him busy." So what's…
— John Flanagan
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I sent a lot of publishing ideas to my publisher, about 30 of them. Each time except 3, i got a "rejection letter". This is…
— James Dashner
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Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters —…
— Maurice Sendak
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Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general…
— Robert Jordan
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I remember," she said. "Lawrence Malley. He was an expert in security systems." "Aka Lightfinger Larry." Dan grinned. "He was also wanted in five states."…
— Judy Blundell
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Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And…
— Jason Mraz
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There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I…
— Ann Hood
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I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I…
— Warren Buffett
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