Booty Barre Quotes & Sayings

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process. — Rachel Ward

The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Sometimes solutions seemed to come out of the air. — Alan Cumyn

Don't complain too loud about wrongs done you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

These different kinds of truthfulness will be fully apparent to the young writer, and their joining together a matter of anxiety. For the older writer, memory and the imagination begin to seem less and less distinguishable. This is not because the imagined world is really much closer to the writer's life than he or she cares to admit (a common error among those who anatomize fiction) but for exactly the opposite reason: that memory itself comes to seem much closer to an act of the imagination than ever before. My brother distrusts most memories. I do not mistrust them, rather I trust them as workings of the imagination, as containing imaginative as opposed to naturalistic truth. — Julian Barnes

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. — William Wordsworth

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions. — Andre Maurois

All that is holding us together [is] stories and compassion. — Anne Lamott

Writer's block comes from one's wanting only to write good stuff. Well, the good stuff and the bad stuff are all part of the stuff. No good stuff without bad stuff. — Eric Olsen

I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet. — Victor Hugo

We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our ignorance and our misfortune spoon-feed us confusion and deception. — Kris Carr

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. — Moliere

The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority. — Franz Boas

Christ's place indeed is with the poets. His whole conception of Humanity sprang right out of the imagination and can only be realised by it. What God was to the pantheist, man was to Him. He was the first to conceive the divided races as a unity. Before his time there had been gods and men, and, feeling through the mysticism of sympathy that in himself each had been made incarnate, he calls himself the Son of the one or the Son of the other, according to his mood. More than any one else in history he wakes in us that temper of wonder to which romance always appeals. — Oscar Wilde