Viscosities Of Common Quotes & Sayings

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult. — David Ogden Stiers

Humans aren't meant to look back. Or else we'd be able to turn our heads in a 180, just like an owl. — Jude Watson

It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel. — Karen Russell

There was no one in the world but Sydney and me just then, and the only things that mattered were our love and the way I felt in her arms. — Richelle Mead

As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself. — Jane Green

As anyone who follows me on Twitter will know, I'm fairly robust in my views on there. I get next to nothing in the way of trolling. Most women I know who regularly come close to expressing an opinion get trolled constantly. This is a men-on-women issue. Guys are pretty much doing it to the girls. — John Niven

Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction or non-fiction) and how books have allowed us to broaden our vocabulary. — Tom Robinson

We need new rituals to awaken us to the fact that we are not separate from the land, water, and sky. We need ceremonies putting us back in touch, and urging us to conserve the resources that give life to everything in existence. We need to once again think as part of something greater, to view reality from a place higher than the narrow confines of a shortsighted ego. Empathy toward other living things should be one of the very first lessons instilled by all religions. — Daniele Bolelli

Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives rise to numerous phenomena. This power has, however, neither goal nor intention. It can do only what it does; it is only a set of acting causes, not a particular being. I was the first to establish this truth at a time when life was still thought to be a principle, an archeia, a being of some sort. — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about. — Antonio Tabucchi

When we were pushed to the edge we were capable of anything. Surviving was the only thing that mattered. — Molly O'Keefe

Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money. — Catherine Crook De Camp

That which,like a sea, threatens to drown you- shall be a highway for your escape — Charles Spurgeon

Literally it's the precise moment when dog doo turns white, but in general it refers to the type of person you don't want to share your hoogencogles with. — Betty White