Literati Bookstore Quotes & Sayings

Look for the clutter in your writing and prune it ruthlessly. Be grateful for everything you can throw away. Reexamine each sentence you put on paper. Is every word doing new work? Can any thought be expressed with more economy? — William Zinsser

Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying. — Mario Puzo

Love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep on watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. — John Lennon

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent. — Johan Cruyff

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with. — Alice Hoffman

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting! — Neal A. Maxwell

A moment's thinking is an hour in words. — Thomas Hood

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world. — Saib Tabrizi

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away. — Kenichi Ohmae