Rhymester Brothers Quotes & Sayings

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference. — Henry David Thoreau

Individuals need life structure. A life lacking in comprehensible structure is an aimless wreck. The absence of structure breeds breakdown.
Structure provides the relatively fixed points of reference we need. That is why, for many people, a job is crucial psychologically, over and above the paycheck. By making clear demands on their time and energy, it provides an element of structure around which the rest of their lives can be organized. The absolute demands imposed on a parent by an infant, the responsibility to care for an invalid, the tight discipline demanded by membership in a church or, in some countries, a political party - all these may also impose a simple structure on life. — Alvin Toffler

He wasn't dealing with underage girls or porn, just spreading the word of jihad to young, impressionable people, which, unfortunately, was not a crime. — Kenneth Eade

Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

So
I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read, and I have not read those things which I ought to have read, and there is no health in me
if by health you mean an inclusive and coherent knowledge of any body of great literature. I can only protest, like all rakes in their shameful senescence, that I have had a good time. — Robertson Davies

Retention of operational control of its air is important to the Corps' air-ground team, as air constitutes a significant part of its offensive firepower. — Keith B. McCutcheon

Really, nobody was there?" I asked.
"Well, nobody important," he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking. — Daniel Amory

O, never from the memory of my heart
Your dear, paternal image shall depart,
Who while on earth, ere yet by death surprised,
Taught me how mortals are immortalized;
How grateful am I for that patient care
All my life long my language shall declare. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The thunderbirds, like dinosaurs, were now creatures of the past: lost long ago, with the coming of disease and famine brought by hairy strangers. Except, in today's world dinosaurs were celebrated by palaeontologists and thunderbirds by cultural anthropologists. But John still remembered them, those magnificent creatures. (...) They, like the man on the motorcycle, had been born in an age when gods, monsters, humans and animals ate at the same table. Now man ate alone, while animals begged for scraps. The others were unable to survive in the new times and had disappeared into the folds of time. Who knew gods and monsters could and did fall victim to evolution? — Drew Hayden Taylor

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge. — Joseph Boyden

Physical heat sometimes accompanies the filling of the Spirit and people experience it in their hands or some other part of their bodies. One person described a feeling of 'glowing all over'. Another said she experienced 'liquid heat'. Still another described 'burning in my arms when I was not hot'. — Nicky Gumbel

Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start doing. That's called 'typing.' Typing is an activity ... Writing is a process. And if you start thinking of it as a process, life gets so much easier. — Jeff Bollow