New Year Academic Resolution Quotes & Sayings

Getters don't get--givers get. — Eugene Benge

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline. — Ayelet Waldman

It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love. — Rollo May

His hair - cut your fucking hair already, you're not Alan Rickman - was lank. — Lev Grossman

Apparently it was very lucrative to be a vampire. — Lara Adrian

Spending so much time stuffing everything that lent itself to filling in any way or form, I am not surprised that the Jerusalemites never had time to raise their heads or look out of their windows to see what their neighbours were up to. — Suad Amiry

The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the author. — Boris Pasternak

I can agree in principle that it's the thought that counts when giving or getting gifts, but I would also like to point out that "if there's no thought...it doesn't count." I don't wish to be reminded that you didn't want to take the time to get to know me, or perhaps you have even known me my whole life and simply don't care about me. All I ask is that you not rub my face in it. — Samantha Bee

I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage. — Ricki-Lee Coulter

If you think you're smart,
think twice to be smarter. — Toba Beta

Good habits are enormously freeing - we accomplish good things almost on autopilot. One study from Duke University found that more than 40 percent of the actions people take every day aren't decisions, but habits. Good habits free us, but when sin becomes a habit, our souls lose their freedom. — John Ortberg

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life. — Robert Towne

Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional. — Eoin Colfer

There are many things wealth cannot buy, and most of those are enumerated by philosophers who have never woken wondering if this day would be their last. — Jacqueline Carey

I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good. — Orson Scott Card