Involucrate Def Quotes & Sayings

I had gotten used to the idea that people lived and you loved them, or didn't, and then they died and you were bound to miss them, often even if you didn't love them. — Amy Bloom

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much. — Whitfield Diffie

If I seem to you to change my state and alter my condition, I do not change my mind. I try always to be Hutten, never to desert myself, but to walk with equanimity through the unequal scenes of life. — Ulrich Von Hutten

No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emotional state forever. Eventually you'd just get tired and want it to end. — James S.A. Corey

Taciturn, adj.
There are days you come home silent. You say words, but you're still silent. I used to bombard you with conversational crowbars, but now I simply let the apartment fall mute. I hear you in the room
turning on music, typing on the keys, getting up for a drink, shifting in your chair. I try to have my conversation with those sounds. — David Levithan

All the same, you don't do it for money, or you're a monkey. You don't think of the bottom line, or you're a monkey. You don't think of it in terms of hourly wage, yearly wage, even lifetime wage, or you're a monkey. In the end you don't even do it for love, although it would be nice to think so. You do it because to not do it is suicide. — Stephen King

My feet are not a good part of my body. They definitely have suffered for my art. They're, like, all bunions and blisters. — Lindy Booth

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was still a little amazed that this was happening. That this, the thing that had seemed so impossible, so terrifying, so utterly beyond me, was happening. I was having fun. And that I was the one who made it happen. "I did it," I said out loud, sendind my voice up to the stars above me, not really caring if the others heard me. — Morgan Matson

When I came off the phone, I told Stewart about the hot tub. He laughed. 'Well, at least we've got our dookers with us. — Gary Sutherland

Nevertheless, it is the free grace of the resurrected One that now also goes after the individual, overcomes the doubter, and creates in him the Easter faith. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work. — Ben Fountain

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves? — Anthony Marais