Mintage Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer. — Haruki Murakami

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old. — A.E. Housman

I have found that people do not often want to believe the truth. It is of little value to them. — Terry Goodkind

Don't go bigger, go deeper. — Joss Whedon

The hard time is when people remembers you, because you need to be with them and its easy when they forgets you. — Nutan Bajracharya

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed. — Louis Menand

The two duties are to lament or praise. — Theodore Roethke

I don't know. I'm really really really nervous. — Nadine Coyle

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids ... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to. — Tyler, The Creator

Everyone believed that to be caught out in a shameful moment when neck muscles relax and the head snaps forward might damage career prospects. But believing was not quite enough. Heavy eyelids in the late afternoon had their own logic, their own peculiar weight. — Ian McEwan

I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things. — Charlie Trotter

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see. — Ronald Reagan

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work. — Elbert Hubbard