Unruled Composition Quotes & Sayings

Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own. — Plutarch

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block. — Questlove

And the heart sounds like a sour conch,
calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic,
scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves:
the sea reports sonorously
on its languid shadows, its green poppies. — Pablo Neruda

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on. — Graeme Murphy

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders). — Thomas E. Mann

What use for? asks my mother, jiggling the table with her hand. You put something else on top, everything fall down. — Amy Tan

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side. — Elizabeth Goudge

There's a saying that goes around that says "I you crossover make sure you bring the cross over." That's definitely my heart and my aim. I want to remain distinct and authentically Christian in whatever realm I'm in. — LeCrae

By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility. — Ron Conway

I remain one of those unreformable suckers who want to hear, just hear from time to time, even if the point of hearing has long since disappeared. — Richard Powers

See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens. — Philip James Bailey

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship, — Bashar Al-Assad