Backstroked Quotes & Sayings

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm. — Penelope Lively

There are lots of ways to work together. — Jacob Lew

The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings. — Buzz Aldrin

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

when in the face of writer's block, find another way to counter attack". — Shaheer Henderson

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness." Franz Kafka — Jason Harvey

The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Let's take my truck," Jim said as he hit the gravel. "Less noise."
And it has a radio, right?" With tragic concentration Adrian started warming up his voice, sounding like a moose being backstroked by a chesse grater.
Jim shook his head at Eddie as the doors opened "How can you stand that racket?"
Selective deafness"
Teach me,master. — J.R. Ward

The book was a challenge, a secondhand paperback crammed with huge and violent emotions in small crowded type on waterlogged pages. — Don DeLillo

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel. — Herbert V. Prochnow

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one. — Dean Devlin