Scribere Quotes & Sayings

So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye. — Pat Paulsen

A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data. — Paul Dirac

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done. — Mary Frances Berry

Every day in every life is of the most profound importance. — Dean Koontz

This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb.
[Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam:
Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.] — Ovid

Not that I will paint in my own way, live in my own way, speak in my own way - they don't mind that. It even excites them. But what they can't stand is that I hate them when they don't behave in their own way. — John Fowles

When others lives were at stake, Virchow's courage had no limit. That is the definition of a hero. — Leslie Dunn

What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water.
[Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti,
In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.] — Catullus

Dwarves are very much of the earth and feel connected to the earth; considering gravity, their weight is low, but they're not small. — Peter Hambleton

Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care ... they just want your money. — Adam Green

One man interacting creatively with others can move the world. — John W. Gardner

I remember my grandfather believed women were second-class citizens and told my mother that it was a shame she had brains because she was a girl and shouldn't carry on her education. — Sarah Gavron

At last the sun rose, and then my companions seemed to sleep easier. The difficulties under which they had laboured all night, and which had found utterance in the most terrific gasps and snorts, are not to be conceived. As the sun got higher, their sleep became lighter, and so they gradually one by one awoke. I recollect being very much surprised by the feint everybody made, then, of not having been to sleep at all, and by the uncommon indignation with which everyone repelled the charge. I labour under the same kind of astonishment to this day, having invariably observed that of all human weaknesses, the one to which our common nature is the least disposed to confess (I cannot imagine why) is the weakness of having gone to sleep in a coach. — Charles Dickens

I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad. — Carmen Kass

Please listen to me: There is someone out there who loves you. Please hold on for dear life. Things are never as dark as they seem. Talk with someone immediately and let them know how you're feeling, in the same way you'd talk to them if you had a terrible flu. I'm feeling really sick. Can you help me? — Sean Covey

She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they would not have it. — Toni Morrison

Difficile est satiram non scribere
[It is hard not to write a satire] — Juvenal