219907 Quotes & Sayings

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man. — Samuel Johnson

Basketball Rule #10

A loss is inevitable,
like snow in winter.
True champions
learn
to dance
through
the storm. — Kwame Alexander

It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did. — Leslie Jamison

In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program. — Bill Dedman

When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

Artists try to depict people; and people depict the artist's' conception of people. — Waguih Ghali

I was quite naughty at school. — Gemma Arterton

People who don't have patience don't achieve anything in life. — Sunday Adelaja

Nathaniel suddenly felt as if he'd been plonked into an I Dream of Jeannie episode. — Amy Andrews

Many times we let the fact that other people are involved cloud our judgment, instead of focusing on what we need personally. At work, we say yes to projects when our plates are already too full. At home, we say yes to our kids when it is not necessary. We say yes to school parties and PTA commitments. We say yes to volunteering at church. And each time we say yes because we want to please someone else, we are negatively impacting ourselves. I — Jessica N. Turner

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. — Joni Mitchell

The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature and its songs, and they are deeply invested in how children are treated, because the children are the ones who will keep it going. The idea that each of us has the right to change everything is a deep insult to them. — Robert Bly

its eyelids half lowered, a look I found particularly sinister. — A.D. Koboah