Exeercise Quotes & Sayings

Tasteful rather than expensive. — Cornelius Nepos

If you'll excuse me, I have to pull my date out of the garbage. — Debra Anastasia

Jewelry, a hot bath, and rest have often made a difference. — Thomas Mann

There were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home. — Carol Burnett

Buddhism: a violent religion that has compensated for the exploding human population by causing whole species of animal vessels to go extinct. — Bauvard

To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us beyond the everyday, into situations that examine the complexities that may fascinate or puzzle us. To dwell on the mundane as some kind of a writing exeercise is useless. — Graham Worthington

A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over. There's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home. — Rodney Dangerfield

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing. — Robert Carlyle

When we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us — Anne Rice

It wasn't fair to pull her into that vortex, because I couldn't be fixed. And Roxy was a fixer. She thought she could help me, I could see it in her eyes. — Ashleigh Z.

Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes. — Euripides

Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit. — Mary Szybist

Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew up; he just grew more shrill as he grew older. His lifelong hatred and whining have led to the deaths (so far) of perhaps a hundred million people, depending on how many people perished under Mao's tyranny. We will probably never know. — Gary North

The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. — F.B. Meyer

Do you think I envy him? At least I was reared without tenderness and without expectation of it. During all that time, you were breeding a hothouse love based on deception. — Dorothy Dunnett