Vestindo Minhas Quotes & Sayings

I briefly entertained the notion that I was insane and didn't know it. Then I considered the possibility that I had always been insane, acknowledged it as more likely than the former, then pushed both thoughts from my mind.. — Patrick Rothfuss

Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and taking out commas and then going through the story again and putting the commas back in the same places. I like that way of working on something. I respect that kind of care for what is being done. That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places so that they an best say what they are meant to say. If the words are heavy with the writer's own unbridled emotions, or if they are imprecise and inaccurate for some other reason
if the worlds are in any way blurred
the reader's eyes will slide right over them and nothing will be achieved. Henry James called this sort of hapless writing 'weak specification'. — Raymond Carver

The difference between pushing my agenda or just living my life determines whether a listener feels like a target or a friend. — Richard Foth

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger. — Nigel Mansell

That I am ready to throw all of my books and papers into the fire, and resolve never more to renounce the pleasure of life for the sake of reasoning and philosophy. — David Hume

With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes. — Charles Darwin

Follow the Little Voice
To do what you should do
Just follow the Little Voice — Debby Feo

The world is gonna try to clean you up, what the f**k you gonna do about it? You're gonna say, "I wanna stay ugly". — Gerard Way

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. — Lord Byron

Paula laughed, remembering more of her mother's words: Better to be unhappy in a Mercedes-Benz than unhappy on a bus. To which Paula had always responded, I'd rather be happy. — Fiona Higgins

I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution. — Peter Camejo

You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips. — Chris Rock

Specifically, I ask that my scenes do three things: Advance the story Reveal new information Pull the reader forward — Rachel Aaron

What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government. — Joseph Muscat

The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time. — Chris Squire