How To Properly Cite Quotes & Sayings

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all. — Melissa Rosenberg

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee — Ian McEwan

I am fully conscious that, not being a literary man , certain presumptuous persons will think that they may reasonably blame me; alleging that I am not a man of letters. Foolish folks! do they not know that I might retort as Marius did to the Roman Patricians by saying: That they, who deck themselves out in the labours of others will not allow me my own. They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words; and experience has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Writing helps me process things, but these emotions are too much, too foreign. And — Katherine Reay

I'd much rather be playing songs than talking to people. — Ray Lamontagne

They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words. And [experience] has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases. Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy: on experience, the mistress of their masters. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The government is a giant corporation with no competition that is constantly trying to keep you off balance so it can siphon more money from you. — Adam Carolla

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. — Lewis Thomas

Childhood is the time of man's greatest content. 'Tis during these years of innocent pleasure that the little ones are most free from care. [ ... ] Their joy is in being alive, and they do not stop to think. In after-years the doom of mankind overtakes them, and they find they must struggle and worry, work and fret, to gain the wealth that is so dear to the hearts of men. — L. Frank Baum

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Where patient needs are complex, we should provide greater support in the community so that patients can cut down on trips to the tertiary hospital. — Tony Tan

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage. — Mignon McLaughlin

When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it. — Jorge Luis Borges

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence. — Eckhart Tolle