Communicative Intent Quotes & Sayings

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are. — Lena Dunham

There is no greater enemy than pride. — Sanskrit

For as long as I could remember, other people had either overshadowed me or left me out in the open, alone. But Mac, as Layla had said all those weeks ago, was always somewhere nearby. He left me enough space to stand alone, but stood at the ready for the moment that I didn't want to. It was the perfect medium, I was learning. Like he was my saint, the one I'd been waiting for. — Sarah Dessen

All we did was have facilitators and the jargon - talk, talk, talk. I went through that more than once. The facilitator, not the president, runs the meetings. Everybody says something and it all goes up on a big sheet of paper. You turn it over, you fill up another sheet, and then put them all up on the wall. At the end of the meeting you gather them all down and roll them up. I don't know what the hell they do with the flip charts after that." - Hazel Wolf — Susan Starbuck

Your sky is full of stars and my arms too short to reach a piece to call my own — Robert M. Drake

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. — C.S. Lewis

Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing. — Neil Gaiman

Masterpieces are only lucky attempts. — George Sand

One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them. — John Wesley

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both. — Zoe Marriott