Bluefly Quotes & Sayings

I think 'slow writing' is the answer when the feeling of burn out threatens, something akin to the 'slow food' movement. Anxiety and panic are counterproductive to the creative process. — Rosaleen Love

Some French socialist said that private property was theft ... I say that private property is a nuisance. — Paul Erdos

The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary. — Dennis Lehane

I've been to Japan but I've never been to China, I'd love to go to China. I don't know, I like to go to places that are remote. So, I think I'd like to do that more. And just sort of also explore not having a structured work life someday, to have more free time to sort of see what happens. — Ben Stiller

We'll not only survive,
we'll thrive,
be positively alive
with a little more space between us. — Robert Leland Taylor

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death? — Confucius

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. — Erykah Badu

The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork. — Arthur Conan Doyle

One must wait till it comes. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I spent hours yesterday talking of little but medical symptoms and insane asylums. And you listened as though it were poetry and all but swooned at my feet. It is too bad I don't have any medical treatises about. I'm sure I need read a paragraph or two, and you will become ravenous with lust and begin tearing my clothes off. (Dorian from "The Mad Earl's Bride") — Loretta Chase

So far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions. — Frances Wright

Force works on servile natures, not the free. — Ben Jonson

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. — David Whyte

happiness isn't about the events going on in your life; it's about how you handle them. It's about falling down and standing up straighter than you did before. It's about realizing that nothing comes easy. — Jodie Sweetin