Quotes & Sayings About Being Able To Do Anything You Set Your Mind To

To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don't have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not as the predominantly liberal and humanist literary establishment believes that they ought to be. — John Braine

The gardener, an old sailor, made him a hammock and fixed it up for him in the branches of a weeping willow. And here for long hours he lay, hidden from anyone who might come to the vicarage, reading, reading passionately. — W. Somerset Maugham

Love's not a faulty toaster. You can't take it apart and study the pieces, replace a part and figure out how it all fits back together. You just feel it. — Nora Roberts

I wouldn't be at all surprised, as hideous and dumb as it sounds, at an invasion of Iraq. — Hunter S. Thompson

Your language looks like a treasure map,' she said, 'if you forget all the rest of the letters and focus in on the x, it looks as if you could find out where the treasure is. — Kirmen Uribe

I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor, — Riccardo Tisci

It's all about God. May He forgive us for every time we start to think it's actually all about us. — Alistair Begg

And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision. — Erica Jong

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses. — Dean Koontz

Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream. — George Kaiser

Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy. — Silver RavenWolf

On the 11th of every month my friend elizabeth would say, "well we made it through another month. so do we get her back now?" we always giggled, but we really did expect to get her back. its not human to let go of love, even when it's dead.
we expected one of these monthly anniversaries to be the Final Goodbye. we figured that we'd said all our goodbyes, and given up all the tears we had to give. we'd passed the test and would get back what we'd lost. but instead, every anniversary hurt more, and every anniversary felt like she was further away from coming back. the idea that there wouldn't be a final goodbye- that was a hard goodbye in itself and, at that point, still an impossible goodbye. no private eye has to tell you it's a long goodbye.
... the loss just doesn't go away- it gets bigger the longer you look at it. — Rob Sheffield

Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers. — Wanda Landowska

I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox, somehow. — Gail Simone