Halmosi Quotes & Sayings

You're not required to save the world with your creativity. Your art not only doesn't have to be original, in other words, it also doesn't have to be important. For example, whenever anyone tells me that they want to write a book in order to help other people I always think 'Oh, please don't. Please don't try to help me.' I mean it's very kind of you to help people, but please don't make it your sole creative motive because we will feel the weight of your heavy intention, and it will put a strain upon our souls. — Elizabeth Gilbert

However, although The Da Vinci Code did a whole heap of things defectively, it did one thing stupefyingly well - the plot. It was as though Brown had jettisoned all traces of style and credibility from his novel because he had realised, in a flash of Leonardo-like scientific insight, that style and credibility were the very properties preventing his theoretical story-balloon from taking flight. So they had been tossed over the side, along with beauty, truth and five hundred years of literary progress. — Andy Miller

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him. — Lara St. John

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. — Amanda Hocking

It's unwise to presume on the future ... It makes good sense to plan for tomorrow today, but there's a problem with thinking we can always do later the good we can do now. — Mark Beeson

At the same moment, Kate and I drop our beverages and make a mad dash for the door. In the lobby, she pushes the elevator button furiously while I head for the stairs. Genius that I am, I figure I can take them three at a time. I'm almost six-feet - long legs. The only problem with this, of course, is that my office is on the fortieth floor.
Idiot. — Emma Chase

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. — John Green

18"And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by [40] the Levitical priests. 19And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, 20that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, — Anonymous

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store. — Joyce Meyer

Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman. — Daphne Du Maurier

To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end. — David Hewson

Everyone had something to offer and nobody appeared to have much money. Even the successful seemed to have just enough to live like extravagant bums. — Patti Smith

In life; if you stay engaged in giving and receiving love, life will always be easier. — Renae A. Sauter

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living. — E.W. Howe