Soffitto Di Quotes & Sayings

I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake. — Lydia Davis

Civility costs nothing and buys everything — Mary Wortley Montagu

I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends. — Charles Frazier

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind. — John Tillotson

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be. — Georges St-Pierre

You need to be able to work with people. Especially in football, it is not a QB's game ... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team. — Joe Montana

In the distance an elk bull bellowed, the strange screaming noise a signal to a cow as strong as the urine that covered its belly. — John Campea

We artists allow others to see through our windows. — Robert Genn

You don't experience anxiety unless you're attached to a thought that isn't true for you. It's that simple. — Byron Katie

To Jesus, the Christian life wasn't about being perfect but about being perfected. — Ricky Maye

But we do neither: we never fail, and we never succeed. We are not the designers of our lives. Life is the designer of us. Life is vast and grand, intelligent, clever, and completely unknowable. It always has the last word. It is the last word. Life interrupts us when we are at our most self-assured. Life diverts us when we are hellbent on going elsewhere. Life arrives in a precise and yet unplanned sequence to deliver exactly what we need in order to realize our greatest potential. The delivery is not often what we would choose, and almost never how we intend to satisfy ourselves, because our potential is well beyond our limited, ego-bound choices and self serving intentions. — Karen Maezen Miller

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win. — Bobby Knight

Even if you don't believe in God, you have to believe in love. — Sandra Cisneros

It from me." "If it will make you feel better, tell me. But it won't change anything." There was a long pause at the other end. "When we lived in Virginia, I ran away with an Afghan man. I was eighteen at the time ... rebellious ... stupid, and ... he was into drugs ... We lived together for almost a month. All the Afghans in Virginia were talking about it. "Padar eventually found us. He showed up at the door and ... made me come home. I was hysterical. Yelling. Screaming. Saying I hated him ... "Anyway, — Khaled Hosseini

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny. — Roseanne Barr