Embroilments Quotes & Sayings

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions. — Paul Signac

I just enjoy watching tennis. And there's things that you can learn from the men's and the women's game. — Andy Murray

One of my greatest strengths is to admit my weaknesses. — Dick Innes

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in. — Hillary Clinton

I'm not your gilded prince with the gilded chairs, Letty," Geoff said simply. "I couldn't be if I tried."
"I wouldn't want you to be." Letty's voice felt rusty.
"I'm not particularly bold or dashing or heroic. I'm happier at my desk than in a black cloak. And I've never entirely mastered all the steps of the quadrille." He looked soberly down at her. "But what I am is yours, if you'll still have me. — Lauren Willig

Then the one which is not, if it is to maintain itself, must have the being of not-being as the bond of not-being, just as being must have as a bond the not-being of not-being in order to perfect its own being; for the truest assertion of the being of being and of the not-being of not-being is when being partakes of the being of being, and not of the being of not- being
that is, the perfection of being; and when not-being does not partake of the not-being of not-being but of the being of not-being
that is the perfection of not-being. — Plato

Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too. — Tom Chatfield

I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book. — Macaulay Culkin

In the past, when she'd looked at her reflection, she had still seen the little girl she'd once been; the woman in the mirror had still been an extension of her girlhood self. Now it was the future she saw. The wrinkles would deepen; her skin would sag; the lights of her eyes would dim. Her youth was fading, easing into the past. — Justin Cronin

Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with. — Jeffery Deaver

He smiled. "You are one beautiful bitch."
"Thank you. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

What, surprised that the bone you're fighting over can talk? Well fuck all of you! — Joanna Wylde

I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror. — Carson McCullers

Principles of design:
1. Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head.
2. Simplify the structure of tasks.
3. Make things visible: bridge gulfs between Execution and Evaluation.
4. Get the mappings right.
5. Exploit the power of constraints.
6. Design for error.
7. When all else fails, standardize. — Donald A. Norman