Sonnets Examples Quotes & Sayings

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted. — John D'Agata

I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing. — Patti Smith

Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break. — B.K.S. Iyengar

And there was nothing you could do about a woman like that. She just turned herself into a hammer and you ran right into her. — Terry Pratchett

My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules; very simple rules that apply to all writing in a way, which is: don't lie; if you're wrong, correct; do not misrepresent; and try and keep oneself intellectually honest - which means, as a writer, the very difficult task in public of admitting you were wrong. — Andrew Sullivan

Productivity has to be defined as benefit divided by cost. The benefit is observed dollar savings and revenue from the work performed, and cost is the total cost, including replacement of any workers used up by the effort. — Tom DeMarco

I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me. — Bill Watterson

Harold, Julia - are you kidding? There's nothing - nothing - I've ever wanted more. My whole life. I just never thought - He stopped; he was speaking in fragments. For a minute they were all quiet, and he was finally able to look at both of them. — Hanya Yanagihara

In my own heart there dwells no faith in praeternature. That Nature and its God are two, no man who thinks, will deny. That the latter, creating the former, can, at will, control or modify it, is also unquestionable. I say "at will"; for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed, of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the Future. With God all is Now. — Edgar Allan Poe

Gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give. — P.D. James

That was ... I don't even know what that was." Derek's voice was nothing more than a rasping whisper. "That was making love, dirty style. — Moira Rogers