Alenda Chang Quotes & Sayings

One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head. — Gene Weingarten

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction. — Fernando Pessoa

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think. — Walter Smith

As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other time. It's called the 'reminiscence bump.' — Robin Marantz Henig

He has the kind of Southern accent that makes you think of melting butter on biscuits, and porch swings. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for ... cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful. — B. Alan Wallace

Courtesy is the universal social lubricant. — Miranda Davis

It didn't stop me from believing we might have had a chance though. — S.C. Stephens

I love the process of creating a character; someone entirely different from myself, and depicting it, either on stage or screen. — Amanda Schull

A true writer cuts their heart open and lets it bleed all over the page...
~Cynthia Batten — Cynthia Batten

Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job. — Robert Reich

Those who have read my stories already, are the ones who were meant to read them. — Randal Licato