Character Quote by Gail Carriger

“How did that saying go? Alexia wondered. Ah, yes, “Brash as an American.” Well, they had won their independence somehow, and it was not…

— Gail Carriger

I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character…

— Liza Campbell

“At the moment, I think we each genuinely believed ourselves to be the protagonist, and the other a naive and pardonable walk-on whose role…

— Susan Choi

I momentarily but genuinely believed that Barack Obama was the answer not only to our nation's depressing politics but to the question of our…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own.

— Kaavya Viswanathan

I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die

— Simon Cowell

For years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything I wrote…

— Scott Bradfield

“It was true that common sense wasn’t her forte. It wasn’t that she was silly or stupid, but she heard so many more voices…

— Donna Goddard

How is it that labels like 'centrist' and 'moderate,' which common sense tells us should reflect the views of a majority of Americans, have…

— Mehdi Hasan

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense…

— John Calvin

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no…

— Kim Stanley

Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front…

— Raymond Chandler