A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
Nicholas Sparks

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
Raymond Chandler

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
Herbert Spencer

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
James Thurber

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
Dennis Rodman

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary McLeod Bethune

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
Barbara Kingsolver

Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.
Julius Erving

You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.
Rob Zombie

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
David Ricardo

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.
David Ricardo

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
John Stuart Mill

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
Waylon Jennings

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
Henry Rollins

But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
Waylon Jennings

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Al Gore

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett