Famous Revision Quotes & Sayings

Fat people are harder to kidnap. — Karla Akins

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding. — Nicholas Sparks

Upon hearing the news I felt completely emptied. Emptied of life, feeling, and hope. I felt as if my very soul had left my body. — J.W. Lord

Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you. — Confucius

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again."
~Fiddler, pg. 558 — Steven Erikson

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided. — Patrick Henry

Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny because it's outside our accepted boundary of decorum. Something is funny because it defies our expectations. Something is funny because it offers a temporary reprieve from the hardship of seeing the world as it actually is. Something is funny because it is able to suggest gently that even the worst of our circumstances and sins is subject to eventual mercy. — Steve Almond

It felt beyond strange to be riding topless in broad daylight, but the exhibitionist inside her - inside every submissive - was deeply aroused. — Claire Thompson

I'm not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins. — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Just follow the rules. Always have a designated driver. Don't be doing anything to make someone mad. And just walk away from the trouble. — Rob Gronkowski

I've gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time ... that's a good way to explore L.A.: you can drive to a restaurant and discover a new neighborhood. — Gillian Jacobs

I think it's important to go (to church every Sunday) and sit and think about something other than yourself, pray for the sick, consider the dead. — Fay Weldon

Brian knows the affair is wrong. He's known from the moment Wendy first undressed in his office. But with her hot, wet tongue in his ear, and her taut, pink nipples straining against his starched white shirt, and with Mick Jagger's strident voice squawking about satisfaction on the tiny transistor radio, Brian's body refuses to obey.
Instead of shoving Wendy out the door, he shoves her onto the unmade bed. — Alison Lurie

I promise a banquet for our ending.
I promise a parade of drums for the day you
close the door behind you for the last time.
I promise not to carry you around with me like a mistake
or a pack of gum, even when I forget what you taste like.
When they ask me about you,
I will always smile.
I will say your name and it will sound
like thank you. — Caitlyn Siehl

Robert Frost didn't like to explain his poems - and for good reason: to explain a poem is to suck the air from its lungs. This does not mean, however, that poets shouldn't talk about their poetry, or that one shouldn't ask questions about it. Rather, it suggests that any discussion of poetry should celebrate its ultimate ineffability and in so doing lead one to further inquiry. I think of that wonderful scene from Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, where Mosche the Beadle of the local synagogue, in dialogue with the young, precocious author, explains: Every question possesses a power that does not lie in the answer. — Tony Leuzzi