Routeam Quotes & Sayings

Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they've put the book down, thinking about the tale that's become a part of them. — James Dashner

This time it is real - all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death! — John Muir

When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath. — Robert Wilson Lynd

When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it. — Miles Anthony Smith

People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky. — Steve Carell

The world is full of Guses
good-looking boys and girls who've been dealt the best possible genetic hand by parents and grandparents and great-grandparents who have been doing neither well nor badly for generations; who engender these decent kids and give them just enough to survive in the world but no more
no spectacular beauty, no uncontainable brilliance, no kingly, unstoppable ambition.
Isn't it the task of art to acclaim these people, to ennoble them? Consider Olympia. A girl of the streets becomes a deity. — Michael Cunningham