Pasivna Recenica Quotes & Sayings

Why is it that, in creative writing courses today, the very first thing we teach students is write what you know? Perhaps that's not the right way to start at all. Imaginative literature is not necessarily about writing who we are or what we know or what our identity is about. We should teach young people and ourselves to expand our hearts and write what we can feel. We should get out of our cultural ghetto and go visit the next one and the next. — Elif Shafak

Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game, which I think speaks to chess's complexity. — Wells Tower

Even for studies, where expenditure is most honorable, it is justifiable only so long as it is kept within bounds. What is the use of having countless books and libraries, whose titles their owners can scarcely read through in a whole lifetime? The learner is, not instructed, but burdened by the mass of them, and it is much better to surrender yourself to a few authors than to wander through many. — Seneca.

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams

As long as you hold an improved self-image as a future possibility, you simultaneously hold the image of yourself as inadequate and incomplete. You are, in effect, a house divided. — J. Douglas Bottorff

I wike your big muscles," Stella whispers as she stares at Bates' bulging bicep in awe. Jesus, I like his big muscles, too. In fact, I'd like to trace them with my tongue. — Hayley Faiman

My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time. — Kim Raver

Any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life. — Deborah Tannen

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators. — Horatio Nelson

She talks philosophy and tries to commit suicide every now and again, apparently in order to annoy her husband. — Anton Chekhov

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five. — Stevie Nicks

It is always the genuine Teemu Selanne that you're seeing. He never puts on a show. It is Teemu. And that's what we love about him. — Henry Samueli