Hobbyhorses Quotes & Sayings

Taking off Levi's shirt had been such an inspired idea, Cath was thinking about losing her own. — Rainbow Rowell

Mm, you're nice to croodle wi', he murmured, doing what I assumed was croodling. — Diana Gabaldon

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. — Charles Baudelaire

America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams. — William J. Clinton

Jocelyn did not want to always remain the same. Where was the adventure in that? — Heidi Schulz

Most writers cannot afford focus groups or A/B testing, but they can ask a roommate or colleague or family member to read what they wrote and comment on it. Your reviewers needn't even be a representative sample of your intended audience. Often it's enough that they are not you. This does not mean you should implement every last suggestion they offer. Each commentator has a curse of knowledge of his own, together with hobbyhorses, blind spots, and axes to grind, and the writer cannot pander to all of them. Many academic articles contain bewildering non sequiturs and digressions that the authors stuck in at the insistence of an anonymous reviewer who had the power to reject it from the journal if they didn't comply. Good prose is never written by a committee. A writer should revise in response to a comment when it comes from more than one reader or when it makes sense to the writer herself. — Steven Pinker

The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction. — Rodney Dangerfield

In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where those two worlds meet, and 'Edge of Tomorrow' is the perfect canvas to explore that. — Doug Liman

And you should never befriend something if there's a possibility it may take a fancy to eating you in your sleep. — Fredrik Backman

The man who can't do most things and won't do the rest — Joseph Conrad

When I came back from lunch and found out you'd been reassigned to Nick, I went up to be certain that you were doing all right. Mary told me that you'd just gone into Nick's office, so I opened the door and looked in to see if you needed rescuing. There you were-smiling angelically at him while you gave him messages from other women and turned down his offer of an 'affair.'"
Resting his head against the back of his chair, Jim closed his eyes and laughed. "Oh Lauren, you were magnificent! I was just about to leave when you pushed him too far and told him you'd call him when your daughter was of age, so that he could, er, initiate her,as I gather he initiated you? — Judith McNaught

Love humanity for all its pleasures and faults. Remember to follow the instructions from above and your day will be blessed — J. Anson Brandes

Well,' I shrug, all innocent, 'we all ride our little hobbyhorses, don't we, Mr. Peel? — L.A. Meyer

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious. — Michael Bolton