Meaing Quotes & Sayings

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. — Ian McEwan

The answers aren't important really ... What's important is- knowing all the questions. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her to the rest of the library's science fictional and fantastic holdings. — Ann Leckie

The eminent strategy had won yesterday,
but defeat will be felt by enemy tomorrow. — Toba Beta

What was so odd was that quite a lot of people, not just sheep but highly intelligent people, did apparently believe it. T. S. Eliot, for instance. Or Eddington - in fact, quite a few physicists, the very last people one would expect to be taken in by it. Philosophers, too. Was it possible - was there any chance - that there was more to it than I had thought? No, certainly not. Of course not! Still, it was odd. Damned odd. — Sheldon Vanauken

When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty. — Noah Webster

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things. — Larry Bird

Mom was asking me to resume a friendship that had no honest foundation and ended on screamingly awkward terms. How do you do that? You can't. — Jesse Andrews

Purity is something that cannot be attained except by piling effort upon effort. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things. — Albert Einstein

It's not funny," said Ron, fiercely. "If you must know, when I was three, Fred turned my - my teddy bear into a great big filthy spider because I broke his toy broomstick. . . . You wouldn't like them either if you'd been holding your bear and suddenly it had too many legs and . . ." He broke off, shuddering. — J.K. Rowling

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented. — Byron Katie

I'm just enjoying life more and thinking about the future. — Sebastian Janikowski