Underlie Synonym Quotes & Sayings

The still waters
Wrap my lips,
Eyes, nose and ears,
A clear
Cellophane I cannot crack. — Sylvia Plath

I revise and revise and revise. Any editor of mine will tell you how crappy my early drafts are. Revisions are about clarifying and evoking feelings in the reader in the same way they were once evoked in me. — Mary Karr

People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead. — Kurt Vonnegut

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader. — Khaled Hosseini

I cared about dogs because they were faithful and honest, and some dogs were cleverer and more interesting than some people. — Mark Haddon

Rape and war, she explained are among the most common causes of post-traumatic stress disorder, and survivors of sexual assault frequently exhibit many of the same symptoms and behaviors as survivors of combat: flashbacks, insomnia, nightmares, hypervigilance, depression, isolation, suicidal thoughts, outbursts of anger, unrelenting anxiety, and an inability to shake the feeling that the world is spinning out of control. — Jon Krakauer

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism - I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse. — Emile M. Cioran

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. — Julia Glass

Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired. — Kerry Washington

Multi-tasking is great in the kitchen when you are trying to time the chicken to be ready at the same time as the potatoes. But do not assume it is a great way to manage a workday. — Joanne Tombrakos

I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid. — John Legend

Heavy as such things are
After the wordslide, the writing begins."
From "Word Quake — Eileen Granfors

As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb ... I realized that I had made a mistake, — Quentin Crisp

When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since. — Shirley Temple

I keep thinking you already know. I keep thinking I've sent you letters that were only ever written in my mind. — Iain Thomas