Lcsh Online Quotes & Sayings

You can't always write what you know - not exactly what you know. You can, however, write what you see. — Brandon Sanderson

I know what my job is. I know what I've got to do. I've got to keep getting better. — Andruw Jones

People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was a point when I would have liked to, but apparently that's just because I'm a bitch. — Dale Peck

Talk is only silence that ain't workin' well. — Gary D. Schmidt

Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been. — Joan Z. Borysenko

To me, every episode is like a song, and every season is like an album. There's that part of the day when you first get the idea and you say, "This could be really funny." And you sit down and you write it. There's just something that happens there that doesn't happen when you really give it a lot of time beforehand. — Trey Parker

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality. — John Charles Polanyi

Friends will hand over anything that is needed and think nothing of it! — William Golding

Everyone's life is a warfare, and that long and various. — Epictetus

Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that. — Bruce Forsyth

Most frequently given of such reasons is the conviction that a general stock market decline of some proportion is somewhere in the offing. In the preceding chapter I tried to show that postponing an attractive purchase because of fear of what the general market might do will, over the years, prove very costly. This is because the investor is ignoring a powerful influence about which he has positive knowledge through fear of a less powerful force about which, in the present state of human knowledge, he and everyone else is largely guessing. — Philip A. Fisher