Donald Murray Craft Of Revision Quotes & Sayings

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads. — John Steinbeck

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on. — Eddie Rickenbacker

Heartache, Daphne eventually learned, never really went away; it just dulled. The sharp, stabbing pain that one felt with each breath eventually gave way to a blunter, lower ache - the kind that one could almost - but never quite - ignore. — Julia Quinn

I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry. — Megyn Kelly

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now. — Jean Rhys

At length the grandeur of the mountains becomes monotonous; with familiarity, the landscape ceases to provoke awe and wonder and the traveller sees the alps with the indifferent eye of those who always live there. — Angela Carter

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
[These words are also inscribed upon his grave] — Karl Marx

It will be! the mass is working clearer!
Conviction gathers, truer, nearer!
The mystery which for Man in Nature lies
We dare to test, by knowledge led;
And that which she was wont to organize
We crystallize, instead. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe