Alfreda Frances Quotes & Sayings

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If you care about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner. — James Frey

I thought about how, at twenty-six, I shouldn't have to floss yet, who wants to be bothered! I didn't even have the energy left over for flossing. I mean, how many things was I supposed to do? Flossing should only be done by people in their forties. — Chrissi Sepe

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object. — Warren Farrell

The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel. — James Prescott Joule

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. — Bertrand Russell

Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to be making the same movie they are in that you have to try to help their imagination be better, and more full, and more fully realized, but you can't have a different imagination because then you end up - and you see this a lot in movies - where it feels like they were making five different films. — Ethan Hawke

I don't necessarily think of it as Southern comedy. I just think I'm a comedian and I have a Southern accent. — Jeff Foxworthy

Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently from an animal which knows that p - talk of knowledge is necessary once one begins to look at explaining the cognitive capacities of a species. — Hilary Kornblith

Such elderly people were in the habit of saying that he simply had no will-power; but it might just as well have been said that he had all his life long only been a many-sided dilettante. — Robert Musil

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy. — Dorothy Parker

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. — Paul Simon