Arquilla Hinsdale Quotes & Sayings

the people who dislike challenges think that talent is a fixed thing that you're either born with or not. The people who relish them think that it's something you can nourish by doing stuff you're not good at. — Megan McArdle

Written on the wall behind them was: 'Blues for the body, food for the soul. — Jennifer Niven

We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end, shall be saved. — Philip Neri

Better start rushing before the rush begins! — Ashleigh Brilliant

Few things focus the mind like fear. — Catherine Tate

Even if I could live forever," she said to the baby, "I still don't know which way I would teach you. I was once so free and innocent. I too laughed for no reason."
"But later I threw away my foolish innocence to protect myself. And then I taught my daughter, your mother, to shed her innocence so she would not be hurt as well. — Amy Tan

I was conscious of being wordy as a child. I was a terrible talker. I memorised the Latin names of flowers at five; I was shown off as a freak. My father encouraged me to be wordier than I was: he'd been a street orator at the time of Mosley, and his ideal primary concert speech was Henry V's speech before Harfleur. — Simon Schama

There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents. — Victoria Strauss

Pope Joan was an excellent read. — Donna Woolfolk Cross