Maria Eleven Minutes Quotes & Sayings

Clutter is nothing more than a series of deferred decisions stacked on top of each other. — Andrew Mellen

Nobody will ever tell you who praised you but everybody would like to be the first to tell you who criticized you. — Amit Abraham

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. — W.E.B. Du Bois

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you. — Stephen King

In my neighborhood ... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away. — Curtis Jackson

Almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by the pound, like groceries. It actually takes a great deal more discipline to be able to leave out rather than to throw in everything. This means that you have to say in one sentence precisely what you mean, instead of saying sort of what you kind of mean in hundreds of sentences and hoping the sum total will add up. — Rona Jaffe

He has demonstrated his own weakness: an inability to read a novel on its own terms. All he knows is judgment, — Azar Nafisi

It's amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you're desperate enough. — Cat Clarke

It is so with emotional natures whose thoughts are no more than the fleeting shadows cast by feeling: to them words are facts, and even when known to be false, have a mastery over their smiles and tears. — George Eliot

Water from your own cistern, water flowing from your own well. — Anonymous

None are so sure in argument as those who know but the half [the situation]; none so hesitant as those who have been told the whole. — Christopher Webb

The first years of man must make provision for the last. — Samuel Johnson