Mmoire En Quotes & Sayings

Creating one single story often requires experimenting and planning and falling on your literary rear more than once before you find the way that works for your particular tale. The most important issue is to keep on trying until you get it right. — Nancy Lam

For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay. — Aino Kallas

All for nothing and Nothing for All"
P.C.M. Hermans - Worldpoet 546
September 21, 2016 — Petra Hermans

They climbed the wide stairways. Their footsteps echoed and echoed through the house. "What on earth will you be doing with something so large?" said Mum.
"I shall live in it with my servants, of course," said Mina. "Or I shall establish a school."
"A school, my lady?"
"Yes. A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities. — David Almond

It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all. — Sylvie Meis

Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn't want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff. — Grimes

Some of the people involved in ISIS are going to Iraq, and some of our young people are being radicalised through the Internet. — Tony Tan

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors. — Jonathan Swift

The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization. — Marcus Garvey

Two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude. — Will Schwalbe

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership. — Mike Quigley

I love the pictures of Old Hollywood, seeing the directors dressed in suits and ties. Even the grips would be wearing ties. But the biggest thing is when I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be an adult, and I think what happens with most guys is that no one wants to be an adult anymore. So they're dressing like kids. — Paul Feig

In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make. — Adam Ross