Lumiread Quotes & Sayings

But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style. — Ali Smith

No food or drug will ever do for you what a fresh supply of oxygen will. — Tony Robbins

We ask for progress, not perfection. Just do your best. — James Frey

Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business. — Tom Rath

I know what I'm doing. I'm panicking. The first thing I should do is stop panicking. But that's not a thing to do, that's a thing to stop doing. Hey, maybe that's why I'm getting all worked up. I've been putting way too much emphasis on what I should be doing when often the real question has been what should I stop doing. So the first thing I should stop doing is asking the wrong questions. The second thing I should stop doing is panicking. — Jules Cassard

Like people, trees are all individuals. — David Hockney

Outside the world was ending and snow continued to fall. — Emily St. John Mandel

I'm not out looking for a cause. They sort of find me or find my heart. But sure, there's always time for that. My big mouth can talk all the time. — Natalie Maines

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work ... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things. — Vincent Van Gogh

I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really. — Haile Gebrselassie

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing. — Jeremy Clarkson

He treated her like a china doll that needed to sit on a high shelf and be admired but never handled. Marietta didn't want to be admired from a distance. She wanted to be touched. Held. Embraced. By him. — Karen Witemeyer

You growing up to be who you are is like a flower growing through a crack in the sidewalk. — Anne Malcom

You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God. — Wallace D. Wattles