Duotrope Submissions Quotes & Sayings

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind. — Arthur Conan Doyle

In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously ... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes. — Peter Jackson

The words walked right out of my mouth. — James Brady

I always work hard to have a very close connection to the fans. — Gavin Rossdale

The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up - it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. — Michael Light

I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves. — August Sander

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed. — Leo Rosten

Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep, his lavender wings, that were his pectoral fins, spread wide and all his wide lavender stripes showing. He was beautiful, the old man remembered, and he had stayed.
That was the saddest thing I ever saw with them, the old man thought. — Ernest Hemingway,

The clearest sign of coming catastrophe is when all the bad shit in your life suddenly stops. You're entering the eye of the shitstorm. — Leah Raeder

As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other time. It's called the 'reminiscence bump.' — Robin Marantz Henig

Des said reluctantly at last, Pray to your god. He's the only other one in here besides us. Pen — Lois McMaster Bujold

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. — Edward Zwick

Work only can keep even kings respectable. — Albert Pike