Trounce Synonym Quotes & Sayings

A person who speaks as if he knows everything soon drives away his listeners. The Universe communicates itself to us in many ways, and sometimes, it is through the words of others. If we act the know-it-all, others may refrain from talking to us, and we may fail to get the message they could have given us. — Wu Wei

I really want to do the Olympics. Obviously, I can't let things out of the bag, so to speak. — Mark Roberts

This Land is mostly white space on the map ... which is how it should be; I'll leave more detailed map making to those graduate students and English teachers who feel that every goose which lays gold must be dissected so that all of its quite ordinary guts can be labelled; to those figurative engineers of the imagination who cannot feel comfortable with the comfortably overgrown (and possible dangerous) literary wilderness until they have built a freeway composed of Cliff's Notes through it - and listen to me, you people: every English teacher who ever did a Monarch or Cliff's Notes ought to be dragged out to his or her quad, drawn and quartered, then cut up into tiny pieces, said pieces to be dried and shrunk in the sun and then sold in the college bookstore as bookmarks. — Stephen King

It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. — Marquis De Sade

It is more pleasant and useful to undertake the experience of revolution than to write about it. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits. — Lynn Samuels

If you were to take a plastic bag and place it inside a large bowl, and then, using a wooden spoon, stir the bag around and around the bowl, you could use the expression 'a mixed bag' to describe what you had in front of you, but you would not be using the expression in the same way I am about to use it now. Although 'a mixed bag' sometimes refers to a plastic bag that has been stirred in a bowl, more often it is used to describe a situation that has both good parts and bad parts. An afternoon at a movie theater, for instance, would be a mixed bag if you favourite movie were showing but if you had to eat gravel instead of popcorn. A trip to the zoo would be a very mixed bag if the weather were beautiful, but all the man- and woman-eating lions were running around loose. — Lemony Snicket

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery. — Douglas Coop

A lifetime's experience urges me to utter a warning cry: do anything else, take someone's golden retriever for a walk, run away with a saxophone player. Perhaps what's wrong with being a writer is that one can't even say 'good luck'
luck plays no part in the writing of a novel. No happy accidents as with the paint pot or chisel. I don't think you can say anything, really. I've always wanted to juggle and ride a unicycle, but I dare say if I ever asked the advice of an acrobat he would say, 'All you do is get on and start pedaling'. — J.G. Ballard

He leaned across the desk and produced a short-barrel revolver from one of the drawers. "One problem. Six solutions. — Matt Hults

Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it. — Alan G. Lafley

Your life is a show and you're the star so don't let anyone walk on set and treat you like an extra. — Lucas Mascotto-Carbone

CHAPTER TWO In Which Inventors Have Powerful Dimples Imogene — Gail Carriger