Literacies 2nd Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is terrible except fear itself. — Francis Bacon

Positive reviews are energizing. Negative reviews are teaching moments and the writer must pay attention, gleaning what is helpful and ignoring the personal jabs. — Liz Cowan

No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because it really happened, they are part of my life, and there is no way I can just erase them. That would be the same as erasing my own self. — Haruki Murakami

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary. — Matt Damon

One of my greatest strengths is to admit my weaknesses. — Dick Innes

A bracing wind swirls about the boy and alights gently upon his shoulder to gape frightfully at droplets of fate joined infirmly to a sweep of atmospheric and lunar forces far beyond their capabilities to resist. He takes a long, deep breath of air - cleansed through its migration - and he closes his eyes.
Scattered waves roll back in to the sea. — Ashim Shanker

I think if you're in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, monogamy is something that should exist. — Jennifer Lopez

A lot of people like the idea of eternal love and eternal romance. The notion of love that is more profound and deeper because it is eternal is very powerful. — James Patterson

The black stream, catching on a sunken rock, Flung backward on itself in one white wave, And the white water rode the black forever. - ROBERT FROST — Kevin Fedarko

Hold on there, pal. Why don't you take a deep breath and tell me what you know. And keep in mind most of us prefer sentences over stream-of-consciousness word vomit. — Alex P. Berg

Midget, midget, midget, how he struts and winks,
For he knows a man's as big as what he hopes and thinks! — Kurt Vonnegut

The same sins that tempted past generations remain perennial temptations today. — Anonymous

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Moreover, the way the Jackson Democrats treated the Indians was not an aberration. Rather, it was only the beginning of a long subsequent Democratic Party history of dispossession, cruelty, bigotry, and theft. — Dinesh D'Souza

All fiction is based on fact and moves into fantasy. It is the writer's task to make the unbelievable believable. — Chloe Thurlow