Descanses In English Quotes & Sayings

Creativity means you have to disappear, you have to allow God to be. — Rajneesh

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years. — V.S. Naipaul

Many people I've met believe that plants are made up of soil-that the tree outside your house, for example, is mostly made from the soil in which it grew. That's a common mistake. That tree is mostly made up of one of the gases in our air (carbon dioxide) and water (hydrogen and oxygen). Trees are solidified air and sunlight. — Thom Hartmann

An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right. — Richard Branson

You could have heard a rat tinkle it was so quiet. — Annie Knox

The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave. — Denis Johnson

Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage. — Norman Lock

Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect. — Barack Obama

Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus. — Robert Rubin

That the reason life is so strange is that we have simply no idea what is around the next corner, and it was an obvious idea but one most of us had learned to forget. — Colum McCann

Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water. — Thornton Wilder

On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. — William Henry Drummond

It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years. — Lois Lowry

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. — Louis L'Amour

I don't think anyone loses by trying to be loyal to their dreams. — Hayley Williams