Menschelsea Quotes & Sayings

My writing process is such that a story will be in my head for awhile, and I'll start making notes on my computer. I create character sheets that include a character's past, fears, goals and ambitions. — Tracie Peterson

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin. — William Gurnall

Separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible. — Werner Heisenberg

He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised. — Angela Carter

It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal ... People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked. That includes women. Most especially women. — Leymah Gbowee

Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success. — Napoleon Hill

If life gives you lemons, then make lemonade. — Toronto Star

Teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes. — Morgan Llywelyn

My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television — Jean Paul Gaultier

There is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain of nuclear ashes will fall alike on the just and the unjust. And then it will be too late to wish that we had done the real work of this atomic age, which is to seek a world that is neither red nor dead. — Edward Kennedy

You didn't have to come after me."
"Yes, I did," he said. "You're far too inexperienced to protect yourself in a hostile situation without me."
"That's sweet. Maybe I'll forgive you."
"Forgive me? Fro what?"
"Fro telling me to shut up."
His eyes narrowed. "I did not ... Well, I did, But you were-"
"Never mind. — Cassandra Clare

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time. — Will Oldham

On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction. — Craig Groeschel