Guilford Dudley Quotes & Sayings

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction. — Pankaj Mishra

Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared. — M.J. Rose

Proper worship is living a life in spirit and truth. — Jefferson Bethke

I ran to the children's room: their door was ajar, I saw they had never laid down, though it was past midnight; but they were calmer, and did not need me to console them. The little souls were comforting each other with better thoughts than I could have hit on: no parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk; and, while I sobbed, and listened. I could not help wishing we were all there safe together. — Emily Bronte

The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car. — Robert Scoble

Love needs too much help, he said.
hate takes care of itself. — Charles Bukowski

Tyrants conduct monologues above a million solitudes. - ALBERT CAMUS, THE REBEL — Clive James

Make it a point to do something exciting. If not, your life will pass you by. — Steven Cuoco

There is a second way in which God has "made foolish the wisdom of the world." Granted that through God's wise providence the world has not known him, God determined that some men and women would come to know him - but through a means utterly unexpected and unforeseen by the "wise" people of the world. "God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe" (1:21). We — D. A. Carson

The more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered. — John Medina

You keep looking at the sea and you start to miss being with people; you stay around people all the time and you just want to go look at the sea. — Haruki Murakami

When I read 'The Water Diviner,' I was having the same kind of visceral reaction that I would normally have acting in something. I believed that I was the only person that could tell this story the way it needed to be told. That's the real arrogance of a director! — Russell Crowe

I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature. — Terrell Davis

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor?
Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it ... — Grant Morrison

It was this little troublemaker named Ralph Waldo Duffy. Ralph Waldo is the one who really ruined the pageant. He picked up the baby Jesus by the feet, and your mother stood up in front of God and everybody and yelled, 'Joseph, put Jesus down before I smack you.' Even then she had the makings of a good mother. — Pamela Todd

His handsome face is suffused with rage. He stands before me shaking, then to my disgust, bursts into noisy tears; "I shall tell my mother of you!" he sobs and crashes out of the chamber — Alison Weir