Poeschli Quotes & Sayings

Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away. — William Davis

Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point where one cannot change it is to greatly enhance the prospects of never publishing. — Richard North Patterson

Stop saying that. If you are weak, then what am I? I can't hold onto anything, because I don't even see myself. This is the punishment for evading everything. Afraid to be rejected. A coward who is overly sensitive to the sorrounding reactions. I don't even notice if no one points it out. "You must be very sad". Compared to anyone, compared to anything else, I don't understand myself the most. — Jun Mochizuki

Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned. — Jeremy Taylor

I want to be the black Madonna. — Rihanna

A kind word sends vibes of love, if we are perceptive, if we know how love permeates and proliferates with this little gesture of giving. — Balroop Singh

I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, "Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!" — Tony Bennett

Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along. — David Keene

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway. — Barack Obama

The transcendent and the numinous can be accessible to the most materialistic of scientists, without positing the supernatural. At the same time, there is no reason to mistrust the same experiences in believers simply because they posit a supernatural source. The question is not, "Does God exist?" It's irrelevant. The question is whether believers and nonbelievers can rejoice in the same experiences and not denigrate the other's explanation as to the origins of very powerful human responses. — Norman Cota

Fuck me so hard, until I can't breathe in anything but you. Until I can't see or feel anything but you. I want you all over me, touching me, tasting me. You do it so well. Drives me crazy. Please fuck me, Dante. Please. — Bethany-Kris

The most powerful men of the kingdom have dragged a duchess down and sent her out to be a marvel to the common people of London. They are so deeply afraid of her that they took the risk to dishonor their own. They are so anxious to save themselves that they thought they should throw her aside. — Philippa Gregory

It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting. — Stephen King

Sometimes all a breathing attack takes is reassurance. What Pete thought. And a shot of prednisone. And two huffs of the red inhaler, then the white one. And a big burly doctor who looked a little like Ernest Hemingway to place his hand on an arm and keep repeating, "Just a reaction to the altitude, maybe the mist tonight and woodsmoke combined. You'll be fine, fine. There now." And a Latvian in a bathrobe - Oh God! Pete noticed now that she had bare feet! She had not even stopped to put on shoes - a barefoot Latvian to intone, "So beautiful, you really look like an angel," and a one-armed hero who reeks of cigarettes and pot to keep saying happily, "Fuckin' A, look, look at that, breathing fine now, fuckin' A. — Peter Heller

That the book is really good. and theres a prince in it to. — Gail Carson Levine