Durnovaria Quotes & Sayings

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently. — Anna Quindlen

You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket. — Ernest Hemingway,

The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it's not illegal to be an asshole, but it's illegal to slap one. — Ronda Rousey

And even my sense of identity was wrapped in a namelessness often hard to penetrate, as we have just seen I think ... Yes, even then, when already all was fading, waves and particles, there could be no things but nameless things, no names but thingless names. I say that now, but after all what do I know now about then, now when the icy words hail down upon me, the icy meanings, and the world dies too, foully named. All I know is what the words know, and the dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning, a middle and an end as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept. To hell with it anyway. — Samuel Beckett

In entirety, valentine is a FUCKING DAY, rather than the sanctity of its literal meaning. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Sometimes it is easier, he thinks, to live out the mistakes we have made than to summon the energy and imagination required to repair them. — Rachel Joyce

In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to therapy is an interesting one: interesting in the sense that it makes me want to vomit angrily. — Derren Brown

Hearing it, I wonder how I could have ever thought that the birdcall I heard earlier sounded anything like the Officer's whistle. — Ally Condie

Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined. — Rick Perry

I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin. — Lucy Davis

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it. — Valerie Harper

Make daily small deposits ... Our lives are defined by small acts of greatness. — Steve Gutzler

Life remains unchanged
till a leap of faith
runs towards heaven — Santosh Kalwar

It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing. — Homer