Ofmaking Quotes & Sayings

She and I were the same, after all. We fought shame every day, struggling with who we could let see the real us, and we'd finally found each other. — Penelope Douglas

Don't focus on the negative things that can happen, just think about the positive things. — Michelle Kwan

Whoever I had become had to die. — Craig Ferguson

I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that. — Dominic Monaghan

Just after I dedicated my life to service, I felt that I could no longer accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need. This moved me to bring my life down to need level. I thought it would be difficult. I thought it would entail a great many hardships, but I was quite wrong. Instead of hardships, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy, and a conviction that unnecessary possessions are only unnecessary burdens. — Peace Pilgrim

Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going. — Virginia Woolf

There are two distinct sides to a writer of fiction. First, there is the side he displays to the public, that of an ordinary person like anyone else, a person who does ordinary things and speaks an ordinary language. Second, there is the secret side, which comes out in him only after he has closed the door of his workroom and is completely alone. It is then that he slips into another world altogether, a world where his imagination takes over and he finds himself actually living in the places he is writing about at that moment. — Roald Dahl

Before playing with his equals, the child is influenced by his parents. He is subjected from his cradle to a multiplicity of regulations, and even before language he becomes conscious of certain obligations. — Jean Piaget

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished. — Felix Baumgartner

My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week. — Tom Hodgkinson

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. — Robert Hass

If you embrace 'positive thinking,' you are - by definition - spurning 'negative thinking.' So it's as if you were on a teeter-totter and are trying desperately to put all your weight on one side - the 'positive thinking' side. — Srikumar Rao

The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their "record." They are afraid ofmaking enemies. They do not vote according to their convictions from fear of consequences. — Rutherford B. Hayes

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within. — Lisa Kleypas