Propensity Def Quotes & Sayings

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality ... — Julia Cameron

A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!'
'The red plague rid you!'
'Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!'
'As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.'
'Strange stuff'
'Thou jesting monkey thou'
'Apes with foreheads villainous low'
'Pied ninny'
'Blind mole ... '
-The Caliban Curses — Gary D. Schmidt

Sometimes he does the brilliant things really well. — Lee Sharpe

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting. — Johnny Evers

Boo: "Go talk to her."
Callum: "About what?"
Boo: "Anything."
Callum: "You want me to walk up to her and say, 'Are you a ghost?'"
Boo: "I do that."
Callum: "I love it when you get it wrong. — Maureen Johnson

Oh nookie in the stacks.Figures you're the type to have that fantasy, grad school and all. — Chloe Neill

It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought ... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively. — Edan Lepucki

False joy, because you are merely
in time, as they say, and not in the soul! — Juan Ramon Jimenez

As Einstein might have put it, only a very malicious (and, therefore, in his mind unimaginable) God would have conspired to have created a universe that so unambiguously points to a Big Bang origin without its having occurred. — Lawrence M. Krauss