Quotes & Sayings About Being The Topic Of Conversation

Without extraneous words or phrases or clauses, there will be room for implication. The longer the sentence, the less it's able to imply, And writing by implication should be one of your goals. Implication is almost nonexistent in the prose that surrounds you, The prose of law, science, business, journalism, and most academic fields. It was nonexistent in the way you were taught to write. That means you don't know how to use one of a writer's most important tools: The ability to suggest more than the words seem to allow, The ability to speak to the reader in silence. — Verlyn Klinkenborg

What I like most about change is that it's synonym for 'hope'. If you are taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it. — Linda Ellerbee

Since the conversation had deteriorated to a loop, Dortmunder abandoned it and looked out his window instead at the thin sunlight out there, until Murch's Mom made the right turn onto Eighth Avenue and sank contentedly into the perpetual blockage there, a traffic snarl well into its second century, running - or not running - from below Penn Station up to above the Port Authority bus terminal. — Donald E. Westlake

Waiting is the rust of the soul. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The key to success is to develop a winning edge. — Brian Tracy

Learning is by nature curiosity ... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained. — Philo Of Alexandria

Q: What does the human spirit do after ten days without sleep, and ten days of isolation tempered only by nocturnal threat sessions? A: It dreams up a solution. — Anna Funder

We are all simply reacting, played by events that occurred centuries before. — Marti Melville

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life. — Taylor Momsen

Nothing makes you fell more alive than swimming in a cold ocean."
I beg to differ, I though wistuflly, watching as he let go of my arm and dived into the waves. Nothing makes me feel more alive than when you touch me, Travis. — Kate McCarthy

I didn't even think about hiding anything - I honestly went into it [with the idea that] I'm going to show myself off because no one of my size has ever been in this magazine [Sports Illustrated] and I need other women to know that they are just as beautiful. — Ashley Graham

I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink. — Sonya Hartnett