Waylaid Def Quotes & Sayings

... the art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea ... . It is on the back of an idea, something believed in with conviction or seen with precision and thus compelling words to a shape ... .
You have not finished with it because you have read it, any more than friendship is ended because it is time to part. Life wells up and alters and adds. Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered. So we look back upon essay after essay by Mr. Beerbohm, knowing that, come September or May, we shall sit down with them and talk. — Virginia Woolf

My iPhone stays on. All my friends and family know that I hate the phone, so no one calls me on it. I just use it to play Words With Friends and take pictures of cute shoes. — Jasika Nicole

Don't accuse others of your past, hidden guilt and sins." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You — Angelica Hopes

Happy we were then, for we had a good house, and good food, and good work. There was nothing to do outside at night, except chapel, or choir, or penny-readings, sometimes. But even so, we always found plenty to do until bedtime, for if we were not studying or reading, then we were making something out back, or over the mountain singing somewhere. I can remember no time when there was not plenty to be done.
I wonder what has happened in fifty years to change it all ... But when people stop being friends with their mother and fathers, and itching to be out of the house, and going mad for other things to do, I cannot think. It is like an asthma, that comes on a man quickly. He has no notion how he had it, but there it is, and nothing can cure it. — Richard Llewellyn

Life is like a movie to me. Everybody has their own movie that's playing out every day, and you're writing it. — Julie Roberts

Anger, like fire, is difficult to restrain. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Arousal is a fairly complex thing. Many people masturabate when they're bored, not because they're aroused. (Dima) — Aleksandr Voinov

Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want. — Jason Sudeikis

In my view, it is important that our national government exercise leadership to improve the resiliency of the entire nation in the face of continuing extreme weather. — Matt Cartwright

Any man over forty is a scoundrel. — George Bernard Shaw

Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence? — Susan Howe

A race lacking respect for women would never advance socially or politically. — Edith Thomas

Do you want to know what you think about most of the time? Take a look at the results you're getting. That will tell you exactly what's going on inside. — Bob Proctor