Barslund A S Quotes & Sayings

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks? — Nora Ephron

What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one. — Annie Proulx

for every mile the feet go
the heart goes nine — E. E. Cummings

For example, a popular spell at the time was Pelepel's Temporal Compressor, which on one occasion resulted in a race of giant reptiles being created, evolving, spreading, flourishing and then being destroyed in the space of about five minutes, leaving only its bones in the earth to mislead forthcoming generations completely. — Terry Pratchett

At about this point I began to feel peculiar. I looked round me at all the rows of rapt little heads with the same silver glow on them at the front and the same black shadow on them at the back, and they looked like nothing more or less than a lot of stupid moon-brains. I felt in terrible danger of puking. I didn't know whether it was the awful movie giving me a stomach-ache or all that caviar I had eaten. — Sylvia Plath

With empathy, I'm fully with them, and not full of them - that's sympathy. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader. — Bob Mayer

If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion — Napoleon Bonaparte

Helping those less fortunate than us is a blessed opportunity to show thanks for the gifts of life that we ourselves enjoy. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound. — Francesca Marciano

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. — Madeleine Albright

A mother never fully delivers. — Judith Kelman

Nothing of worth is simple. — Cheryl McIntyre

And I'll know my song well before I start singing — Bob Dylan

It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything. — Alice Hoffman