Ruanne Johnson Quotes & Sayings

time. Take a lot of it at the beginning of the writing process. I'm not talking about hours or even days. I'm talking about weeks. Don't make the amateurish mistake of getting a hot premise and immediately running off to write scenes. You'll get twenty to thirty pages into the story and run into a dead end you can't escape. — John Truby

CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE — Veronica Roth

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long. — James Thurber

Holy Hannah, that man is dangerous! — Colleen Houck

Famiglia isn't always blood, mio caro. Famiglia is built on bridges of love. Famiglia is there for you without condition. Famiglia supports you in your darkest moment of need. — Tillie Cole

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel. — Napoleon Hill

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination. — Herbert Hoover

Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants. — Dick Couch

Is the future of humanity really about clouds you can't see and chips you can't eat? — Mal Fletcher

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing. — Emma Goldman

When the case against me was dropped, the police simply said "no further action". They do that with everybody. — Paul Gambaccini

I'm p-paralyzed with happiness. - She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Facts speak louder than statistics. — Geoffrey Streatfeild

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand. — Sigmar Gabriel