Minie Quotes & Sayings

The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral. That was another of Cody's metaphors for it; I'd said the sensation felt like an unbalanced washing machine filled with a hundred epileptic chimpanzees. Pretty proud of that one. — Brandon Sanderson

All the sick are gonna be healed, the dead are gonna be raised and nations are gonna turn to God in a day. — Paul Cain

Eenie, meenie, minie, moe, catch a killer by the toe. If his lawyer's Haller, let him go. Eenie, meenie, minie, moe. Hey bro. — Michael Connelly

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128 — Donna Tartt

How do you know if you are a writer? For once, I am going to answer a question as directly as I am able. My answer goes like this. You know that you are a writer if you are imaginative. You know that you are a writer if you are curious. You know that you are a writer if you are interested in the things and people of the world. You know that you are a writer if you hold a minie ball in your hand and wonder about its story. You know that you are a writer if you like the sound of rain on the roof. And if you want to tell someone else about your heart and how waiting for the thunder sometimes makes you feel, if you work to find the words to do that, then you are a writer. " -Maureen — Kate DiCamillo

I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way. — R.A. Salvatore

I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization. — Adam Ferrara

When you sell a prospecting concession, you're only selling potential. You pay tolls for the right to invest and look for something. — Beny Steinmetz

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood. — Guy Debord

If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure. — Adolf Galland

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera. — Dorothea Lange

To our hearts revealed
As dreams flow through
No distance exists at all
Between we two — Ron Bishop

You know that you are a writer if you are imaginative. You know that you are a writer if you are curious. You know that you are a writer if you are interested in the things and people of the world. You know that you are a writer if you hold a minie ball in your hand and wonder about its story. You know that you are a writer if you like the sound of rain on the roof. And if you want to tell someone else about your heart and how waiting for the thunder sometimes makes you feel, if you work to find the words to do that, then you are a writer.
Maureen O'Toople in the short story Your Question for Author Here — Jon Scieszka

Eenie, meenie, minie, mo is based on a counting system that predates the Roman occupation of Britain, that may even be pre-Celtic. If so, it is a rare surviving link with the very distant past. It not only gives us a fragmentary image of how children were being amused at the time Stonehenge was built, but tells us something about how their elders counted and thought and ordered their speech. — Bill Bryson

This diversity comes about due to the interdependency between each other — D.K. Hari

For me going out to party never meant drinking or taking drugs. — Pedro Winter

Fatality makes us invisible. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez