Mmknmk Quotes & Sayings

When I started writing every day, I realized a painful truth: I can't react and create at the same time. Neither can you. — Jeff Goins

Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off. — Philip Larkin

The early dictionaries in English were frequently created by a single author, but they were small works, and not what we think of today as dictionaries. Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall, published in 1604, is generally regarded as the first English dictionary. It was an impressive feat in many respects, but it contained fewer than 2,500 entries, the defining of which would not be a lifetime's work. This and the other dictionaries of the seventeenth century were mostly attempts to catalog and define "difficult words"; little or no attention was given to the nuts and bolts of the language or to such concerns as etymology and pronunciation. For — Ammon Shea

Ignorant is not the one who does not know much but the one who does not make senses. — Galina Nelson

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life. — Hubert Selby Jr.

I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven't actually read it. — Rachel Held Evans

In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me. — Sappho

I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next. — Doug TenNapel

The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive. — C. G. Weeramantry

the soul is on the edge of what's visible, like a clear glass marble in a jar of water, — David Mitchell

I'm interested in illustration in all its forms. Not only in books for children but in posters, prints and performance as a way of drawing people into books and stories. — Chris Riddell

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A fear of losing, of failure is a fear of success. — T Jay Taylor

Yet lost in the debate about America's true intentions in the Middle East was the fact that large majorities in every Muslim-majority state surveyed told pollsters they wanted to see their countries move toward greater democracy. A wave of democratic fervor across the Middle East created a renewed sense of hope for scores of people who had spent their lives in autocratic societies but who now looked forward to the possibility of having a say, even if in the most limited of ways, in their own political destinies. The Green Movement in Iran lit the fuse, employing new social media technologies like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to break the government's monopoly over the media and to demonstrate to the world their aspiration for freedom and liberty. — Reza Aslan

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study. — Hugh Miller