1739 Stono Quotes & Sayings

Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts. — Jane Yolen

To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution. — Timothy Ferriss

Count your blessings, not your misfortunes, for your blessings will be the light of hope, in the dark of hopelessness. — Kaitlin D.S. Cammie

Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one
sensation, fire, from the other, frost. — A.S. Byatt

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

... if you don't know who you are, it's kind of tough to know what you want ... — Robert J. Crane

If someone feels negative about the way society or culture seems to be going, what it probably suggests is that it's just moving away from the state that they are comfortable with or used to. It's understandable why someone would feel that way. — Chuck Klosterman

She had lived her life trying to look straight at things, straight at them knowing that there would come a day when she would look at something so hard that it would look right back and break her. Well, wasn't she made of flesh and bone? Wasn't she made to break? Sure. Wasn't she a woman? — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect. — Bel Kaufman

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. — Nikos Kazantzakis

We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them. — Simon Pegg

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. — Balthus

Live in the moment ... but don't be led by the moment, or the people who belong to it. — J. Aleksandr Wootton