Annuitization Quotes & Sayings

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose. — Jorge Luis Borges

I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything. — Sebastian Faulks

In the end, it's not about failure, it's about how much you love what you do. — Vera Wang

I guess that's my defence, is like - even if people think it sucks - it's not me anymore, you know. — Panda Bear

I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. — Hermann Hesse

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way. — Anita Desai

I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied. — Layne Staley

I try to be an honest originalist! I will take the bitter with the sweet! — Antonin Scalia

The stars were so simple when she was a kid, a smattering of glowing dust circling the Earth. She did not then know that each was a sun, most considerably more massive than the daylight one she knew. — Thomm Quackenbush

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him. — Roald Dahl

If you do all that work of figuring out exactly how writing is done, then it's available to you at anytime, and you can build on it. It's like the difference between shooting one hoop and having it go in by accident and saying later, 'I shot a basket,' - and practicing so much you can do it whenever you want. — Mark Salzman

As the invasion fleet sailed east across the Mediterranean, Napoleon would lie in bed reading and dictating to Bourrienne. His principal reading was from the Koran. Like Alexander the Great before him, he intended to absorb the religion of the people over whom he would rule. He insisted that, if necessary, he himself was willing to become a Muslim - an intention that, at least initially, he would show every sign of wishing to fulfill. However, it should also be noted that in Napoleon's shipboard library the Koran was shelved under "Politics." At the same time, he also busied himself with dictating his "proclamation" to the Egyptian people. — Paul Strathern

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones. — Charles Adams

And so Graham and I finally got down to our first film script, and I can say with complete confidence that we had absolutely no idea what we were doing. Of course, we had no idea we had no idea what we were doing, and that meant our enthusiasm stayed intact. — John Cleese