Smaragdova Doska Quotes & Sayings

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. — David Mitchell

Landing on the shores of normalcy is wonderful, especially after being tossed around in the sea of sickness. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident ... Every little qualifier whittles away some fraction of the reader's trust. Readers want a writer who believes in himself and in what he is saying. Don't diminish that belief. Don't be kind of bold. Be bold. — William Zinsser

I don't respect my husband because he is the man and I am the woman, and it's my "place" to submit to him. I respect Dan because he is a good person, and because he has made me a better person too. — Rachel Held Evans

Return trips, to this day ... are simply invitations to dull trances or leaden slumber, — John Irving

I knew exactly why I shouldn't be her friend. This was no mere attraction. What I suffered from was total, debilitating awareness. Every freaking inch of me tuned in to her. — Linda Kage

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light. — Leanna Renee Hieber

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider. — Mark Twain

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant. — Scott Adams

I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot. — Jaroslav Hasek

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not. — Jandy Nelson

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him. — Tom Wilkinson

I see very small movies being financed by crowdfunding. If you're a well-known actor or celebrity of some sort, you can probably raise between one and two million. I don't have that kind of cult [following]. — John Sayles

Luck favors the mind that is prepared. — Louis Pasteur

Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day. — George Stroumboulopoulos