Berbagai Sumber Quotes & Sayings

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. — Doris Lessing

If you're not enjoying writing, take a break. Let your passion return. Why should a reader like it if you don't? — Kira Hawke

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm sure that if [Walter] could still talk to the living, he would tell us that the simplest things in life can be treasures, and there are no physical or metaphysical limitations on how much we can love-both in this life and beyond. — Amelia Cotter

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon. — Carl Hiaasen

This is another thing I think of, turning it over, try to put together two pictures of it, but this time it's about me, it's myself I'm trying to figure. Because one sounds so disgusting, not even able to tell Al about it, win the big game, take the virgin to her first bonfire, feed her a beer or two, and then the two of us in someone's car with your hand between my legs, unbuttoned and hiked down and the noises I made, before I finally, gasping, stopped you. It sounds terrible and it's probably the truth, the real picture, gross when I write it down and shamed about it. But it's the real, whole truth I'm trying to get down, how it happened, and honestly it felt different then, different from that bad picture. I can see it, so gentle the way you moved, the thrill that was there with us as no one knew where we were or what we were doing. — Daniel Handler

His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye. — Arthur Conan Doyle

If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress. — Paul Dirac

Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I wanted to like her and I wanted her to like me and that was more want than I had saddled myself up for in many a moon. — David Levithan

Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If I want to make a grime tune I'll go ahead and do it, but I don't really have the urge to right now. — Lady Sovereign

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Paranormalists, however, insist that our minds are transmitters that, with special effort, can focus like lasers to communicate across great distances, and even make things happen. That may seem far-fetched, but it's also a definition of prayer. — Alan Weisman