Verratti Farms Quotes & Sayings

I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the book - third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time. — Robin Sloan

The key to writing is concentration, not inspiration. It requires deep attention to your characters, to the world they live in, and to the story you have to tell. — Salman Rushdie

Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts. — Nido R. Qubein

I don't relax. I can't take vacations. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I'm going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it's a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop. — Mary Ellen Mark

Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching — Rodman Philbrick

Still, it's really frustrating me that there doesn't seem to be anything in my closet that's appropriate to wear to an exorcism. — Paige McKenzie

I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it. — Chris Martin

Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish. — Mary Downing Hahn

I can live only wholly with you or not at all. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one's community back from the path of sin. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer