Nicefield Florida Quotes & Sayings

For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary. — Sarah Hall

consider the common practice of setting up regularly occurring meetings for projects. These meetings tend to pile up and fracture schedules to the point where sustained focus during the day becomes impossible. Why do they persist? They're easier. — Cal Newport

I'm so excited about the new [Yankee] stadium! — Mark Teixeira

There are sacrifices you have to make. I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people. — Richard Simmons

Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling. — Gary Weiss

I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent. — Vanilla Ice

A pawn in a very complicated game, a little cog in a huge gear, so little that it should not even be seen: in fact, it was established that I would go through here without leaving any traces; and instead, every minute I spend here I am leaving more traces. I leave traces if I do not speak with anyone, since I stick out as a man who won't open his mouth; I leave traces if I speak with someone because every word spoken is a word that remains and can crop up again later, with quotation marks or without. Perhaps this is why the author piles supposition on supposition in long paragraphs without dialogue, a thick, opaque layer of lead where I may pass unnoticed, disappear.
I am not at all the sort of person who attracts attention, I am an anonymous presence against an even more anonymous background. — Italo Calvino

The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies. — Estelle Morris

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item. — Annie Lennox

He grinned. It was the sort of grin that Agnes supposed was called infectious but, then, so was measles. — Terry Pratchett

Even today it's not uncommon to find teachers who believe that if a child can't take a pen in hand and write an essay on a piece of paper, then he or she is not really a writer. What the CCSS is telling us is that this isn't true. If a student can organize her thoughts in a meaningful way and dictate them into a machine or to another human being, she is a writer and should officially be recognized as such. — Sally A. Spencer

There's no story,' I say. 'I saw you one day, and I just knew. — Stephanie Perkins

If you said 'Boo' to me, I wouldn't sleep for two weeks! I don't like scary movies. — Bindi Irwin