Gomontr Quotes & Sayings

If I were to tell this story the way history is usually written or the way each of us recalls his own past, which means recording only the most glorious moments and inventing a new continuity for them, I should omit these little details and say that our eight stout hearts drummed from morning to night in time with a single all-encompassing desire - or some such lie. But the flame that kindles desire and illuminates thought never burned for more than a few seconds at a stretch. The rest of the time we tried to remember it.
Fortunately the demands of daily work, in which each of us had his vital role, reminded us that we had come aboard of our own free will, that we were indispensable to one another, and that we were on a ship - that is to say, in a temporary habitation, designed to transport us somewhere else. If anyone forgot it, someone else lost no time in reminding him. — Rene Daumal

Inside his house, a kid gets one name, but on the other side of the door, it's whatever the rest of the world wants to call him. — Jerry Spinelli

Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself. — Seth Godin

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. — George Saunders

The knot of her hands and the pulses in her throat rejected any possibility that their meeting might be a casual one. But, of course, she could not explain, nor was her face of any more assistance than her tongue; in fact, as she herself knew, in moments of stress she could resemble a congested turkey. — Patrick White

Marketing is a core part of anything you do. — Keith Belling

More dragons incoming... — Julie Kagawa

There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety. — Mary Karr

I felt, just then, a kind of indebtedness to green, the colour. — Janet Frame

I realized that I'd put so much energy into thinking about what I didn't want to happen that I'd caused that exact thing to happen. I conjured that bitch. — Sophia Amoruso

The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness. — Naum Gabo

If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside. — Tom Hodgkinson