Moralina Quotes & Sayings

When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself. — Flannery O'Connor

Sound
That stealeth ever on the ear of him
Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim,
And sees the darkness coming as a cloud
Is not its form
its voice
most palpable and loud? — Edgar Allan Poe

The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you. — Michael Pollan

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell

At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security. — Ruben Hinojosa

Most of the things at the zoo don't look like us. We're one design that works. Our chimp pals sort of look like us, so that's a different take on the same basic design. But fish don't look like us, and giraffes don't. They look a little like us, but not too much. And insects certainly don't look like us, and they work just fine. — Seth Shostak

In DC Comics, Blue Devil is a superhero who came out of a movie. — Marc Guggenheim

After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived. — Dave Grohl

There was language everywhere; you could read the city, the city was a grammar — Jonathan Lethem

Now I know why Baby Suggs pondered color her last years. She never had time to see, let alone enjoy it before. — Toni Morrison

If Steven Spielberg brought me a movie four hours long and said, 'It has to go out this way,' I guarantee you that's the way it would go out. — Sidney Sheinberg

I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy. — Muhammad Ali

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything. — Dave Barry

Don't be tossed away by your monkey mind. You say you want to do something - "I really want to be a writer" - then that little voice comes along, "but I might not make enough money as a writer." "Oh, okay, then I won't write." That's being tossed away. These little voices are constantly going to be nagging us. If you make a decision to do something, you do it. Don't be tossed away. But part of not being tossed away is understanding your mind, not believing it so much when it comes up with all these objections and then loads you with all these insecurities and reasons not to do something. — Natalie Goldberg

As a kid, I felt really weird. — Mayim Bialik