Odyssey Odysseus Being Brave Quotes & Sayings

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother. — Richard Peck

Children and teens take in stories to the deepest imaginable level. What we put on the page can change the people they'll become and the course of their lives. — Cynthia Leitich Smith

Lacan wrote about two levels of speaking, one in which we know what we are saying (even when struggling with something difficult or contradictory) and another in which we have no idea of what we are saying. In this second level of speaking there are repeating words, phrases, and even sounds that function as magnets of unconscious meaning, condensing multiple scenes, times, and ideas. He called such markers in speech 'signifiers. — Annie Rogers

Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct. — William Carlos Williams

Working with Ty Power was exciting. In those days, he was the biggest romantic swashbuckler in the world. Murderously handsome! But what I loved most about Ty Power was his wicked sense of humor. — Maureen O'Hara

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once. — Sinead O'Connor

What can I do?" he implores. "Just hold me. — Ava Harrison

Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people. — Jackie Chan

I wasn't kidding about the flying-kids part. Or the talking-dog part.
Anyone who's up to speed on the Adventures of Amazing Max and Her Flying, Fun-Loving Cohorts, you can skip this next page or so. Those of you who picked up this book cold, even thought it's clearly part three of the series, well, get with the program, people! I can't take two days to get you caught up on everything! Here's the abbreviated version (which is pretty, I might add):
A bunch of mad scientists (mad crazy not mad angry- though a lot of them seem to have anger-management issues, especially around me) have been playing around with recombinant life-forms, where they graft different species' DNA together. — James Patterson

Be careful what you're good at doing, because you'll probably do a lot of it. — Jim Bob Duggar