Exaggerated To Add Quotes & Sayings

I revise and revise and revise. Any editor of mine will tell you how crappy my early drafts are. Revisions are about clarifying and evoking feelings in the reader in the same way they were once evoked in me. — Mary Karr

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements. — Orison Swett Marden

I hate you! (Artemis)
Don't keep saying that, Artie. It's cruel to get my hopes up. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

And I swear - I swear - I felt time slide out from under me. — Alexandra Bracken

Gift of life is the greatest of all gifts; — Mahatma Gandhi

Worldliness is not so much what we do, it's what we want to do. It's an issue of the heart. — Britt Merrick

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple. — Bernardo Bertolucci

If Love dwelt not in Trouble, it could have nothing to love. But its substance which it loves, namely the poor soul, being in trouble and pain, it hath thence cause to love this its own substance and to deliver it from pain, that so itself may by it be again beloved. — Jakob Bohme

That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted
although married six months.
Big mystery. No one knew where to put their leg and to this day I'm not sure
we got it right.
He seemed happy. You're like Venice he said beautifully.
Early next day
I wrote a short talk ("On Defloration") which he stole and had published
in a small quarterly magazine.
Overall this was a characteristic interaction between us.
Or should I say ideal.
Neither of us had ever seen Venice. — Anne Carson

I don't know when I stopped mattering to him, and I don't know how to undo it. I want it to be like it used to, when all he needed was me. — Amanda Grace

takes many years for heart disease to develop. A 2007 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) study suggests that even adolescents and young adults show some of the warning signs for developing heart disease. Having a high body mass index (BMI) or higher than optimal blood pressure or LDL ("bad") cholesterol between ages 18 and 30 can mean a two to three times greater risk of developing heart disease. Regrettably, more and more adolescents and young adults are developing these signs because of poor diet and lack of physical activity. You can significantly lower your chances of heart disease by adopting the measures described below. — Miriam E. Nelson

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there. — Payne Stewart

I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it — Oprah Winfrey

In time, I found out that in God's economy nothing is ever wasted. All those "dead-end jobs" prepared me for the job of my dreams in journalism. — Regina Brett

lunch parties that the missus had for her girlfriends. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice. They were forever saying each other's names. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice, all the size of her, boasting about the presents their husbands gave them for their birthdays — Edna O'Brien