Tumutukoy Quotes & Sayings

I really don't want to go to work every day convincing myself of what I'm saying. I want the material to make me a better actor; then I try to return the favor to the material. — Paul Dano

When taking a bullet for someone, make sure they're not the one pulling the trigger. — Van Krishna

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure. — Nora Roberts

Whatever it is you're running from-it goes with you. it stays with you until you find out how to confront it. — Colleen Hoover

Evidence is mounting that faith-based service programs are often more successful than other programs in correcting social problems. [It is wrong] for government to demand that religious nonprofits gut precisely that part of their program [funded through tax dollars] that makes them so effective. — Ronald J. Sider

The oldest profession [prostitution] is the most honest, for it exposes the bare bones of what civilization is all about. It's the root of all professions. — Daniel Suelo

The wild night is calling. — Van Morrison

He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn't know what's going on. — Leo Buscaglia

In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK. — Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul - joyous, eternal. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom. — Maxwell Perkins

I don't know why everybody doesn't write because everybody talks. — Beryl Bainbridge

Nothing good is easy. — Rainbow Rowell

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable. — Carl Sagan

Search your own life for the story only you can tell. The best thing about writing from life is that you can be sure of using original material. And no research is needed beyond the time you spend looking deep inside your own heart. — Elizabeth Held Forsyth