Cardus Study Quotes & Sayings

Put differently, harden the fuck up, soldier. (And beard the fuck on, while we're at it.) — Chuck Wendig

These young writers nowadays. They spend more time networking to promote their writing careers than writing their books. Maybe that's why there are so few good ones anymore. — Lauren Carr

Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing. — Mark Steyn

I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream. — Kurt Vonnegut

I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her. — Hilaire Belloc

I wished to be an artist," Ivanya confides to Shara. "But it simply didn't turn out that way. I didn't have the ... I'm not sure. The imagination, I suppose, or the ambition, or both. You have to be a bit outside things to make something new, but I was always very much inside things. — Robert Jackson Bennett

O my body, make of me always a man who questions! — Frantz Fanon

A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one aligns ones inner and outer behavior, submitting ones ego or will to the will of a higher power. — Mason Jennings

Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time ... — Janet Morris

Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else. — Peter Andre

There are plenty of things in vaults that didn't sell in its time. So much stuff. But slowly these companies start to get a hint that these things have some value. — Devendra Banhart

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart. — Ben Carson

Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it's important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing. — Nicola Formichetti