Croasdaile Quotes & Sayings

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish. — Wilson Follett

The less I say the more my work gets done. — Elton John

Have an enthusiastic mind and a soft, but sweet, heart. — Debasish Mridha

I think the hymns give us a glimpse of the generations before us, and what was important to them at the time. Even though they are usually singing similiar messages that are in today's music, it is good to be reminded that the message of Christ is just as much relevant today as it was then. — Bart Millard

There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one. — Denise Mina

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
From the poem Mad Girl's Love Song — Sylvia Plath

She'd listened to a lot of these utopian discussions, and it was somehow comforting that Stephen and his friends could never quite work all the kinks out of their plan; that the world was as obstinately unfixable as her life was. — Jonathan Franzen

We are armed with the truth. What can harm us if we are armed with the truth?' 'Well, a crossbow bolt can, e.g., go right through your eye and out the back of your head,' said Sergeant Colon. — Terry Pratchett

When love and skill work together, expect a materpiece. — John Ruskin

I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time. — Johnny Damon

We all laced together - a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti. — Ruta Sepetys

- Is recycling to do with global warming?
- Need you ask?
- Well, I only ask because we've been recycling for twenty years or so, and no one was talking about global warming back then. — Julian Barnes

A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love. — Denise Mina

Everything has changed, but the process of telling a story has not changed. It's like cavemen sitting around the fire; somebody's going to tell the story. Somebody is drawing on the wall. You're communicating. You're trying to learn and teach at the same time. You're your own student and you're your own teacher, but the process is of the communicating. — Stanley Kubrick