Picturing Writing Quotes & Sayings

The Bible teaches that whether we are saved or lost, there is conscious and everlasting existence of the soul and personality. — Billy Graham

Diet plays in my opinion an important role during pregnancy — David Downing

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it. — Sadie Jones

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. — Duke Ellington

I've barely said five words to you. What indication could you possibly have that I am a Yankee?"
"Well, we could start with the words 'what indication.' Someone from south of the Mason-Dixon would have said, 'Who the hell are you calling a Yankee?' Then we would have fought. — Jana Deleon

There's no disputing that for pols, the Internet is a great way to connect with people and raise some cash and post 'Sopranos' parodies or play your opponent's macaca moments. But in a 'net root' sense, it's pretty useless for getting someone elected. — John Ridley

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

I absolutely love talking to all of my fans. — Claudia Lee

I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ. — Kate Clinton

I don't believe everything "is meant to be." I believe God wants to direct our steps, but our free will makes for a lot of detours. — Kirstin Leigh

When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be, and you are happy again, then you will have given up. — Cormac McCarthy

A poet must learn to wage war. — Ho Chi Minh

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom. — Ayn Rand

There's joy all around, if you only look for it. — Wanda E. Brunstetter

As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world. — Evelyn Underhill

She had moved to Los Angeles from the Midwest, lured by a job with a publisher. But the publisher was bought by another soon after, and she was left without a job. Turning to freelance writing, an erratic marketplace, she found herself either swamped with work or unable to pay her rent. She often had to ration phone calls, and for the first time was without health insurance. This lack of coverage was particularly distressing: she found herself catastrophizing about her health, sure every headache signaled a brain tumor, picturing herself in an accident whenever she had to drive somewhere. She often found herself lost in a long reverie of worry, a medley of distress. But, she said, she found her worries almost addictive. Borkovec — Daniel Goleman

The flip side of happiness is suffering. — Radhanath Swami

let us start by picturing the Japan archipelago lying in the sea by the Chinese mainland. If its proximity allowed it to become part of the Sinosphere and acquire a written culture, its distance benefited the development of indigenous writing. The Dover Strait, separating England and France, is only 34 kilometers (21 miles) wide. A fine swimmer can swim across it. In contrast, the shortest distance between Japan and the Korean Peninsula is five or six times greater, and between Japan and the Chinese mainland, twenty-five times greater. The current, moreover, is deadly. . . . Japan's distance from China gave it political and cultural freedom and made possible the flowering of its own writing. — Minae Mizumura