L83 Quotes & Sayings

I'm one of those people who always wanted to be a writer, so I have a fair amount of juvenilia, though fortunately, I was too old for my juvenilia to be on the Internet. — Ann Leckie

Take a risk, take a prize. — Carrie Fisher

ARE YOU A SETTLER, DRIVER, OR REBEL? — Darrin Patrick

The birds are in their trees,
the toast is in the toaster,
and the poets are at their windows.
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The proofreaders are playing the ping-pong
game of proofreading,
glancing back and forth from page to page,
the chefs are dicing celery and potatoes,
and the poets are at their windows
because it is their job for which
they are paid nothing every Friday afternoon. — Billy Collins

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. — Billy Graham

My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work. — Anita Roddick

I didn't look up, occupied as I was with brooding, a famous pastime of wizards everywhere. — Jim Butcher

I can't bear that they, and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way! — Thomas Hardy

Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breath, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us? — Garth Stein

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson