Spitta Quotes & Sayings

I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the worldview that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, to take pleasure in solid objects and scrapes of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself. The job is to reconcile my ingrained likes and dislikes with the essentially public, non-individual activities that this age forces on all of us. — George Orwell

The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer. — J. Paul Getty

Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m. — Ellen DeGeneres

If you want to say something radical, you should dress conservative. — Steven Biko

But there was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word, the words themselves slanting steeply downhill, though the individual characters seemed as if resisting the descent, braced, climbing the other way. — Malcolm Lowry

I love to dance.I've been told I'm actually really good. — Lucas Till

I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world. — Blythe Danner

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells. — Khalil Gibran

Never let your mind imprison your achievements by imposing disbelief on you. — Israelmore Ayivor

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience. — Eleanora Duse

Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation. — Mariella Frostrup

It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control. — Michael Coren

Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in. — Mordecai Ham

Wouldn't it be better if we could be kinder, but firmer? — Brene Brown

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage. — Anne McCaffrey