Liebrenz Himes Quotes & Sayings

The only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. — Brenda Ueland

Why regret that I lived miserably Yesterday. Rather, Why not commit and resolve to live happily today. — R.v.m.

Literature destabilizes thought by breaking open language and smuggling in sound, rhythm, and image--an invasion of aesthetics. More easily than analytic writing, poetry can emancipate itself from the standard definitions of words, enabling a breakthrough to new (and perhaps wayward or even nonsensical) meaning, which can then develop after the fact--different at each new reading. Literary language is presumptuous. It dips into the unknown in order to get nearer to a truth different from that of the superficially visible. As the poet Franz Josef Czernin described it, it is as though one step after another into emptiness could become a ladder. Literary writing can take the writers themselves by surprise; it can disturb and disappoint them--for stirring up turmoil is inherent in metaphor. Thus with every flash of understanding that comes from hearing or reading a poem, the fundamental work of thinking is taken up anew. — Marie Luise Knott

There's only a handful of directors who really understand what I call the alchemical balance between a man and a woman, in a woman's body, which most people consider the strong woman character. — Michelle Rodriguez

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality. — Joyce Carol Oates

It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym. — Warren Cuccurullo

The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more. — Lionel Messi

And since the griefstruck rarely know what they need or want, only what they don't, offence-giving and offence-taking are common. — Julian Barnes

I just shot John Lennon. — Mark David Chapman

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good. — Richard Curtis

Give and give of y'self till there's nothing left! Only then can you have something! If you take, you diminish things till there's nothing left. If you give, you provide and things grow! Yes? — Ian C. Esslemont

Family is who truly loves you and home is where your heart truly is. — Ben Tolosa

Everyone else carries a backpack, but not Josh. He has a cool, beat-up messenger bag, covered with stickers protesting all kinds of things. — Elizabeth Scott

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return. — Bob Woodward

Without deviation progress is not possible. — Frank Zappa