Meliksah University Quotes & Sayings

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average. — Derek Walcott

I don't like it if I am being held like a baby. If someone holds me normally, and I'm not being coddled, I feel much more comfortable. — Jyoti Amge

Ella knows her way around her voice as very few people today. But there are times when she seems to be unaware there are things the human voice just doesn't do. She does them. — Ella Fitzgerald

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.
+ Then you shouldn't be a writer. — Candace Bushnell

Novelists never have to footnote. — Jane Smiley

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It was a dark story. — Joseph Conrad

When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas? — Andre Breton

The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights. — Zig Ziglar

You never really know about a quarterback until he plays in a real game. — Mike Singletary

Why was he alive on Earth? Very often the meaning was obscured. Very often it required some digging. The meaning of his life was an elusive stream of water hundreds of feet below the surface, and he would periodically drop a bucket down the well, fill it, bring it up and drink from it. But this did not sustain him for long. — Dave Eggers