Tick Birds Quotes & Sayings

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me. — Iris Dement

Thinking prevents us from touching life deeply. I think, therefore I am really not there. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Joe Torre, who switched to first base because he didn't want to go through life as Chicken Catcher Torre. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

Because - and don't let anybody tell you different - novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. — Richard Russo

She saw it all. Every dark, dangerous deed. Every dark, ugly kill. Every law he had broken. But most of all she saw his greatness. — Christine Feehan

A driving snow-storm in the night and still raging; five or six inches deep on a level at 7 A.M. All birds are turned into snowbirds. Trees and houses have put on the aspect of winter. The traveller's carriage wheels, the farmer's wagon, are converted into white disks of snow through which the spokes hardly appear. But it is good now to stay in the house and read and write. We do not now go wandering all abroad and dissipated, but the imprisoning storm condenses our thoughts. I can hear the clock tick as not in pleasant weather. My life is enriched. I love to hear the wind howl. I have a fancy for sitting with my book or paper in some mean and apparently unfavorable place, in the kitchen, for instance, where the work is going on, rather a little cold than comfortable. — Henry David Thoreau

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw. — James Russell Lowell

Psychopathy was positively associated with in-house ratings of charisma and presentation style: creativity, good strategic thinking, and excellent communication skills. — Kevin Dutton

It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles. — Joan Robinson

A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost. — Anthony Liccione

Only those who are empty within, seek to suppress those around them — Dara Reidyr

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Would you like to see the menu?" he said, "or would you like meet the Dish of the Day?"
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"Good evening," it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body? — Douglas Adams

Person describes himself throughout life. To know oneself perfectly means to die. — Albert Camus