V Rmezo D Li P Lyaudvar Quotes & Sayings

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence. — Jayne Anne Phillips

The struggle to write with profundity of emotion and at the same time to live like a millionaire so exhausted F. Scott Fitzgerald that he was at last brought down to the point where he could no longer be both a good writer and a decent person. — Nelson Algren

All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad. — Kenneth Tynan

Dripping rain like golden honey-
And the sweet earth flying from the thunder — Jean Toomer

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in? — Oscar Wilde

I hate to get on the racial thing because that's something I've always been totally against. But the problem with the media is that they think that the word rock means white and the word rap means black. — Ice-T

I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that. — Coco Lee

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different. — Colin Firth

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work! — Elizabeth Smart

My undercarriage is a national treasure. — Gina Damico

A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life. — Christopher K. Germer

How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers. Because of Lydia's mother and father, because of her mother's and father's mothers and fathers. — Celeste Ng

The camellia against the moss of the temple, the violet hues of the Kyoto mountains, a blue porcelain cup
this sudden flowering of pure beauty at the heart of ephemeral passion: is this not something we all aspire to? And something that, in our western civilization, we do not know how to attain?
The contemplation of eternity within the very movement of life. — Muriel Barbery

And when I am in a new place, because I see everything, it is like when a computer is doing too many things at the same time and the central processor unit is blocked up and there isn't any space left to think about other things. And when I am in a new place and there are lots of people there it is even harder because people are not like cows and flowers and grass and they can talk to you and do things that you don't expect, so you have to notice everything that is in the place, and also you have to notice things that might happen as well. And sometimes when I am in a new place and there are lots of people there it is like a computer crashing and I have to close my eyes and put my hands over my ears and groan, which is like pressing CTRL + ALT + DEL and shutting down programs and turning the computer off and rebooting so that I can remember what I am doing and where I am meant to be going. — Mark Haddon