Traubel Helen Quotes & Sayings

There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day - bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! — Jean Racine

Or perhaps it is just that George has spent proper time looking at this one painting and that every single experience of looking at something would be this good if she devoted time to everything she looked at. — Ali Smith

Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them into a slob, into an insane being, craving power, destroying anything that stands in their way. — Frederick Lenz

I'd rather miss one or two games than to come back and pop it and miss four or five. — Darren McFadden

In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity. — Oprah Winfrey

People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire. — Jackson Browne

The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room. — Hamilton Wright Mabie

If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff. — Ed Rendell

A life that was surprisingly full, even though it was simple. Or maybe because it was simple. — Carlene O'Connor

The little people parted and two of them carried a tray with the head of an animal Wiggley Charlie didn't recognize down an aisle. (It was the head of an opossum, but the o was silent, as often happens with the decapitated.) — Christopher Moore

Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth. — Jack D. Zipes

I was forever under his spell and I never wanted to be without him, ever again. And if being with him, like this, turned out to be a mistake, it would be the best mistake I'd ever make. — C.J. English

If you listen to music every day, you will be happy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Someday being with Dex will be a distant memory. This fact makes me sad too. Its the initial stages of grief that seem to be worst but in some ways, Its sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they're missed in your life. — Emily Giffin