Scriveners Guild Quotes & Sayings

each variety of humor is a sort of totem, making at once for unity and separation. Its votaries it unites into a closely-knit brotherhood, but it separates them sharply off from all the rest of the world. — Hope Mirrlees

I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft. — Yaya Han

I can't handle rollercoasters. I have no control of it. It gets to me. — Junior Seau

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want. — Abbi Glines

Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you're super-stressed. — Elizabeth Hurley

wax and seemed dumbfounded by the accident. Next thing he wanted to know 'how long it would take to' . . . I interrupted him again. Being hungry, you know, and kept on my feet too, I was getting savage. 'How could I tell,' I said. 'I hadn't even seen the wreck yet - some months, no doubt.' All this talk seemed to me so futile. 'Some months,' he said. 'Well, let us say three months before we can make a start. Yes. That ought to do the affair.' I flung out of his hut (he lived all alone in a clay hut with a sort of veranda) muttering to — Joseph Conrad

When the day comes that Tehran can announce its nuclear capability, every shred of international law will have been discarded. The mullahs have publicly sworn - to the United Nations and the European Union and the International Atomic Energy Agency - that they are not cheating. As they unmask their batteries, they will be jeering at the very idea of an 'international community.' How strange it is that those who usually fetishize the United Nations and its inspectors do not feel this shame more keenly. — Christopher Hitchens

We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens. — Jane Addams

Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done. — Iris Apfel

wondering how to get his hands on it." Carefully, — Sara Donati

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do. — Donald Barthelme

I find that students are very strong on my issues, stronger than anyone: anti-death penalty, anti-racial profiling, campaign finance reform, questioning the anti-terrorism bill. — Russ Feingold