Extertion Quotes & Sayings

If I was a carpenter, and I was trying to maintain my father's musical legacy, then I guess it would be a burden because it wouldn't be natural to me to be dealing in music when my natural ability is in woodwork or whatever. But because my natural talent is also music, it kind of makes it much easier. — Stephen Marley

No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce. — H.P. Lovecraft

The mystery of Evil and its origin & purposes".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

I consider everything I compose a gift. — Keith Emerson

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought. — Paul Bettany

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues. — Cullen Hightower

Story ideas, but it's also musing on stuff that I'm thinking about. This leads me to this and this leads me to this. They're kind of random and haphazard. Often I can't find anything. Somehow, by doing that, even though I don't necessarily refer to them in a specific way, I have some sort of architecture in my head. — Charlie Kaufman

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being. — Michael Pollan

Gussie and I, as I say, had rather lost touch, but all the same I was exercised about the poor fish, as I am about all my pals, close or distant, who find themselves treading upon Life's banana skins. — P.G. Wodehouse

I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of extertion! — Jane Austen

I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from? — Elie Wiesel

My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges. — Dorothy Parker