Stoplight Writing Quotes & Sayings

The difference between the detailed plans he drew up and the house itself when finished, so filled with raked sea light, is the difference between the body and the soul, between musical notation and a song, between the idea for a drawing and the actual drawing itself. — Colm Txf3ibxedn

I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment. — Ann Coulter

Why do i live? In the infinity of space, and infinity of time infinitely small particles mutate with infinite complexity. When you understand the laws of these mutations, you'll understand why you live. — Leo Tolstoy

Books took away the pain and disappointment, they always did. Books closed bad doors and opened good ones. — Kathryn Harvey

Patience is real self-mastery. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it. — Alastair Reynolds

With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man." — Lucas Till

These old-style buses had other glories too. I'm sure it was not only me and my friends who enjoyed the occasional ride without a fare on these old wagons. 'Get on a red bus and not pay the fare, get on the red bus and go anywhere,' as I sang in 'Somewhere in London'. — Suggs

It had always been a part of his job which he found difficult, the total lack of privacy for the victim. Murder stripped away more than life itself. The body was parceled, labelled, dissected; address books, diaries, confidential letters, every part of the victim's life was sought out and scrutinized. Alien hands moved among the clothes, picked up and examined the small possessions, recorded and labelled for public view the sad detritus of sometimes pathetic lives. — P.D. James

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies. — George Eliot

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying. — Yoko Ono

Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways. — Sharon Van Etten

That's what you did when someone was having a hard time. You fed them. It was a tradition that crossed all cultures. — Nichole Chase