Jossandmain Quotes & Sayings

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. — Ann Brashares

I realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of light power- to break the gravitational pull. How many of us ever get free of our orbit? We tease ourselves with fancy notions of free will and self-help courses that direct our lives. We believe we can be our own miracles, and just a lottery win or Mr.right will make the world new. — Jeanette Winterson

Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open. — George Jean Nathan

To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky. — Pablo Neruda

I lost most of my weight from breastfeeding and I encourage women to do it; It's just so good for the baby and good for yourself. — Beyonce Knowles

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death. — Dorothy Norman