Dockworker Wrap Quotes & Sayings

One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film banned because otherwise he might see it and be harmed ... — Edgar Dale

You are a person worthy of love. You don't have to do anything to prove that. — Sharon Salzberg

When the author is not traveling, he works at an L-shaped desk, which affords a view north through a large sunny window. He writes everything on an electric typewriter because "it has to be a book from the first day," he explains. He has no daily routine because of all the traveling he does, but follows a very disciplined writing process. He writes each page six times, then places it in a three-ring binder with a DePauw University cover ("a talisman," he calls this memento from his alma mater). When he feels that he has gotten a page just right, he takes out another 20 words. "After a year, I've come to the end. Then I'll take this first chapter, and without rereading it, I'll throw it away and write the chapter that goes at the beginning. Because the first chapter is the last chapter in disguise." He always hands in a completed manuscript, and his editor is his first reader. — Jennifer M. Brown

To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man. — T.C. Boyle

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness. — Heidi Murkoff

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little. — Phil McGraw

A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them. — Rudolf Flesch

How could you afford to buy me those shoes today?
Flushed, he groans into my ear, "You made me."
"I did not."
"You made me love you. — Sarah Hina

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life. — Neil Diamond

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order ... we take what we know a little too seriously. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,
as if the short spring days were an eternity. — Henry David Thoreau

Torture the data, and it will confess to anything, as — Ben Goldacre