Avicennas Ten Quotes & Sayings

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style. — P.D. James

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me. — John Perkins

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men. — Philip James Bailey

I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world. — Mike Leigh

we're bumping into each other all the time... — Athol Fugard

Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it. — Linus Torvalds

They were beyond the present, outside time, with no memories and no future. There was nothing but obliterating sensation, thrilling and swelling, and the sound of fabric on fabric and skin on fabric as their limbs slid across each other in this restless, sensuous wrestling ... They moved closer, deeper and then, for seconds on end, everything stopped. Instead of an ecstatic frenzy, there was stillness. They were stilled not by the astonishing fact of arrival, but by an awed sense of return - they were face to face in the gloom, staring into what little they could see of each other's eyes, and now it was the impersonal that dropped away. — Ian McEwan

What was it that thus set so far asunder the morning of the day before yesterday and the evening of to-day? — Gustave Flaubert

Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life. — David O. McKay

My mind is evidently so constituted that I am subconsciously forced into the path of duty without recourse to tiresome mental processes. — Edgar Rice Burroughs