Fortnightly Means Quotes & Sayings

You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio. — Kara DioGuardi

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters. — Lance Reddick

and a barge that sailed into the banqueting-hall with his week's washing, just as he was giving a dinner-party; and he was — Kenneth Grahame

Everyone dies eventually. I think it's better to die clean. — Erika Johansen

Pity melts the mind to love. — John Dryden

It was best to put an end to everything now, while she was still brave and healthy enough to die — Paulo Coelho

A final caution to students: in making judgments on literature, always be honest. Do not pretend to like what you really do not like. Do not be afraid to admit a liking for what you do like. A genuine enthusiasm for the second-rate is much better than false enthusiasm or no enthusiasm at all. Be neither hasty nor timorous in making your judgments. When you have attentively read a poem and thoroughly considered it, decide what you think. Do not hedge, equivocate, or try to find out others' opinions before forming your own. But having formed an opinion and expressed it, do not allow it to petrify. Compare your opinion then with the opinions of others; allow yourself to change it when convinced of its error: in this way you learn. Honestly, courage, and humility are the necessary moral foundations for all genuine literary judgment. — Laurence Perrine

And so I pushed it all down into the dim recesses of my mind, there to fester and grow like botulism. — Robyn Davidson