Famed Florentine Quotes & Sayings

There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life difficult for your editor. But once a piece of crap goes out with your name on it, it is gone forever and will haunt you ... — Gail Simone

Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want. — Jack Canfield

The Christian-Islamic Church, of course, wanted both the Bible and the Koran frozen forever. — Philip K. Dick

Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself. — Hans Selye

You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for. — Patrick Ness

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. — Jacques Delille

So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever. With masks down, I walk, talking to the moon, to the neutral impersonal force that does not hear, but merely accepts my being. And does not smite me down. — Sylvia Plath

An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

...being around him wasn't good for Quentin. He could feel himself regressing in the direction of an adolescent tantrum - it was like trying to talk to his parents. He lost all perspective on who he was and how far he'd come. — Lev Grossman

Darkness has touched you, much as light has embraced your sister — Brandon Mull