Book Tenacity Quotes & Sayings

This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day going to make a decent novelist out of me. If you are out here and cannot close off the loves and hates of all that back there in the real world the memories will overtake you and swamp you and wilt your tenacity. Tenacity stamina ... close off to everything and everyone but your writing. That s the bloody price. I don t know maybe it's some kind of ultimate selfishness. Maybe it's part of the killer instinct. Unless you can stash away and bury thoughts of your greatest love you cannot sustain the kind of concentration that breaks most men trying to write a book over a three or four year period. — Leon Uris

Calm?" I screeched. "Calm? Ryan, I nearly killed you! How could I possibly be calm?" Ryan studied my face for a minute and then rolled his eyes.
His smile turned to a frown. "You're not going to let me kiss you ever again, are you?" It wasn't really a question.
"And you say you're not that smart. — Kelly Oram

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream. — Linda Ronstadt

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about rafters? — Henry David Thoreau

Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People. — Meredith Brooks

Once again, Azalea stood in the midst of girls, the familiar chin wobbles and wet cheeks overcoming them. Jessamine curled up on the floor, her lacy pantelettes poking up in black ruffles, and began to wail in a tiny crystalline voice.
"I have a watch."
Azalea started, remembering Lord Bradford. — Heather Dixon

Hit the ball up to the hole ... You meet a better class of people up there. — Ben Hogan

Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today. — Jamais Cascio

On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships. — Eberhard Weber

Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light! — Baha'u'llah

Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know. — Muhammad Ali

By the grace of god I feel you. — Truth Devour