Rastelli Procedure Quotes & Sayings

The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task. — Nancy Kress

Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President's. — Donald Rumsfeld

Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should! — Cecily Von Ziegesar

To have sweet sleep we must have sweet lives, sweet tempers, sweet meditations, and sweet love. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story. — Jim Bishop

Creativity is a synthesis of two qualities: imagination and concreteness. — Pearl Zhu

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock. — Cassandra Clare

In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness. — Frederick Lenz

Although the frankfurter originated in Frankfurt, Germany, we have long since made it our own, a twin pillar of democracy along with Mom's apple pie. In fact, now that Mom's apple pie comes frozen and baked by somebody who isn't Mom, the hot dog stands alone. What it symbolizes remains pure, even if what it contains does not. — William Zinsser

Lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better. — Agatha Christie

There's a thing - I've noticed it often. When I first say something, it's as if people don't hear me, they can't believe I'm saying it. Then they start to actually pay attention, they stop noticing that a teenage girl is talking and start to believe that it's worth listening to what I'm saying. — Jo Walton

trust is a fragile thing, like a fine piece of rare china on display in an antiques shop. Once it's broken, the pieces never quite fit - no matter how carefully you try to glue them together. — Laura Markovitch