Shovelled Spelling Quotes & Sayings

The first time I saw you," I say, "I had a premonition. I had the feeling I'd found the thing I'd always been waiting for. The next time I saw you, it was the same. And every time after it's been the same. — Hilary Thayer Hamann

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God. — Epictetus

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure. — Mike Jackson

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back. — Bill Bryson

Old professors never die, they just lose their faculties. — Stephen Fry

There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this test: Does it stretch out its roots in the deepest place of your heart? Can you avow that you would die if you were forbidden to write? Above all, in the most silent hour of your night, ask yourself this: Must I write? Dig deep into yourself for a true answer. And if it should ring its assent, if you can confidently meet this serious question with a simple, "I must," then build your life upon it. It has become your necessity. Your life, in even the most mundane and least significant hour, must become a sign, a testimony to this urge. — Rainer Maria Rilke

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us. — Marianne Williamson

You should treat a muse like a fairy. — Paulo Coelho