Mengedit Quotes & Sayings

They come in injured and mangled, we put them back together, then they stand in my halls making demands. A thankless lot to be sure. — Kristen Britain

Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there. — Valerie Simpson

Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the lull that follows battle; it was the silence of defeat. But the silence now enveloping his dead friend, so dense, so much akin to the nocturnal silence of the streets and of the town set free at last, made Rieux cruelly aware that this defeat was final, the last disastrous battle that ends a war and makes peace itself an ill beyond all remedy. The doctor could not tell if Tarrou had found peace, now that all was over, but for himself he had a feeling that no peace was possible to him henceforth, any more than there can an armistice for a mother bereaved of a son or for a man who buries his friend. — Albert Camus

I feel confident I should have been a rebel Angel had the opportunity been mine. — John Keats

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one. — John Steinbeck

The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood. — Charles Dickens

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music. — Skylar Grey

2-1-10:
A languid Sunday, afternoon turned into evening, evening into night, night into morning.
'I just want to enjoy your nextness and nearness,' O says.
He puts his ear to my chest and listens to my heart and counts the beats.
'Sixty-two,' he says with a satisfied smile, and I can't imagine anything more intimate. — Bill Hayes

After the Fukushima disaster, Japan shut down most of its reactors and said it would move to renewables. — Shi Zhengrong

I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region. — Rainbow Rowell

Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death. — Paul Stamets