Selasi Great Quotes & Sayings

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour. — Jonathan Swift

The moon is the better storyteller for this event. Our ancient craters are smoothed over by erosion and tectonic motion. With no erosion, no wind, and no liquid water on the moon, craters can remain perfectly visible for billions of years, an orbiting catalog of impacts. — Craig Childs

When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation of yourself; say, "I am free to write the worst junk in the world." — Natalie Goldberg

Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their deepest convictions, are blind to most truths. — Nathaniel Dean

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed. — Anthony Storr

Sorry is so cheap. — Stephen King

I can hear some of you groaning as you read this section. "Great," you're saying. "I have to put a theme in my book? Themes are only for that 'high literature' stuff that gets taught in universities, not for my nice, entertaining genre fiction. — Libbie Hawker

When you finish writing the scripts they have time to take a breath and think about everything. There's just a little more time to think. Network does not allow for that. — Alex Graves

Didn't know why I was holding my breath because I knew that the old saying of how you could hold your breath and nothing would sting you was pure hogwash. I had tried that before and it hadn't worked at all. Rowdy would have absolutely nothing to do with anything that — Wilson Rawls

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century. — Sarah Polley

The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all the way to Santa Monica. Wayfaring Stranger Pg. 415 — James Lee Burke

By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine
and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness — Pablo Neruda

Don't look now, but there's one man too many in this room, and I think it's you. — Groucho Marx