Administrative Day 2015 Quotes & Sayings

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved. — Alexander McCall Smith

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so. — John Cornyn

Literary history and the present are dark with silences ... I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences
what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)
that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot. — Tillie Olsen

They sayin I'm back, I agree with that. — Drake

Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die. — Jennifer Lopez

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome. — Avicii

When someone hears that I've written a book about 1897, I'm usually met with blank stares. And the first thing they say is, 'Was there even an L.A. back then?' A lot of people don't even think there was a city before the movies appeared. That concept of Los Angeles is so strong in the popular imagination that celebrity overrides everything. — Liz Goldwyn

The first song Ben taught me was Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water', when i was 10, and I would play it on the top string with one finger. I did it so much that there was a massive crease in the skin and i think I must have driven everyone crazy, playing that same song all the time, — 5 Seconds Of Summer

I come up with an idea and I'll start throwing little suggestions for possible scenes into a folder, but before I seriously sit down to write Word One, they whole outline is finished. Sue me. It works. — Dan Alatorre

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Luc Tuymans

For life's not a paragraph/ and death, i think, is no parenthesis. — E. E. Cummings

My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position. — Arthur Conan Doyle