Distillateur Quotes & Sayings

Who hurts the most? In the world you have invented, who suffers the most? Chances are that it is among the characters who are in pain that you will find your main character, partly because your readers' sympathy will be drawn toward a suffering character and partly because a character in pain is a character who wants things to change. He's likely to act. Of course, a character who suffers a lot and then dies won't be a productive main character unless your story is about life after death. But your eye should be drawn toward pain. Stories about contented people are miserably dull. — Orson Scott Card

There are things that happen in life that we can't control. But we can control the way we respond to them. — Vhalsky

People have unlatched the energies of the worldly self (jiv shakti), but they have not unlatched the energies of Real Self (shiv shakti). — Dada Bhagwan

Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it. - Jaques — N.D. Wilson

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate. — Samuel Johnson

American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. — Robert L. Payton

We are living at a time where there are so many films available to watch through so many formats all the time. It's hard for any film to stand out in that din. — Megan Griffiths

The one thing my mother instilled in me, well both my parents but specifically my mother - I come from a Muslim country where boys were more wanted than girls so she always made me feel that there is nothing that I couldn't do as well as the boys if not better. — Iman Abdulmajid

Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker's wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled. — Anthony Doerr

One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks. — Nick D'Aloisio

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting. — Ann Brashares