Usthebasic Quotes & Sayings

I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh. — Sutton Foster

I couldn't love a movie much more than 'Dazed and Confused.' I would argue that 'Dazed and Confused: The Series' would have been very much like 'Freaks and Geeks.' And that died a painful death because it was too good. — Rob Thomas

Max's laugh was like a dragnet; it picked up every living laugh within the vicinity and shined a light on it, intensified it, pitched it higher. It was a dare
he dared you not to laugh with him. He dared you to despair. He dared you to insist that there was no dawn, that all there was was darkness, that there was no silver lining, that the heart didn't grow fonder by absence. He dared you to believe you were going to die
when you at that moment knew, just as he did, that you were immortal, you were among the gods. — Eve Babitz

10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
Write even more than that.
Write when you don't want to.
Write when you do.
Write when you have something to say.
Write when you don't.
Write every day.
Keep writing. — Brian Clark

By now the two men were tied securely to their chairs. Powerscourt found he could just about move his arms. If there was a deus out there somewhere, he said to himself, he wished he would hurry up and get out of his machina. — David Dickinson

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. — Amelia Barr

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear. — Mahatma Gandhi

For we cannot speak of the beginning; where the beginning begins our thinking stops, it comes to an end. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well. — Angus Stone

We don't deserve our job. Period. — Miles Anthony Smith

Meditating together is the best way to feel the collectivity. — Nirmala Srivastava

Long commutes make you fat, stressed, and miserable. Even short commutes stab at your happiness. — Jason Fried

I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished. — Christopher Paolini