Wistfulness Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. — Hugh MacLeod

I could have kissed you months ago, but it wouldn't have meant anything. I wished for you to see me. And want me. So ... did you mean it?"
"Yes," I said, and some unnamed tension inside me eased. "I see you, Tod. — Rachel Vincent

Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease. — Mary Ann Mobley

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood. — Seth Godin

What does it mean when society says your unfit to be a mother? Are there circumstances to be factored in before that judgement is made? What if a mother is doing the best she can in the face of crushing adversity but still doesn't measure up to society's standards?
When does a mother lose her right to be a mother? — Laura Schroff

I did a show in New Jersey in the auditorium of a technical high school ... Technical high school, that's where dreams are narrowed down. We tell our children, "You can do anything you want." Their whole lives. "You can do anything!" But this place, we take kids - they're 15, they're young - and we tell them, "You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you." — Louis C.K.

It is a hunger with me, books. I had rather read than eat, I do think. — Mercedes Lackey

If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally. — Robert Herjavec

The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly. — Robin Tunney

The aim is to move from doing just action dramas to establishing myself as someone who can do family dramas as well. — Duniya Vijay

Love is a funny thing to describe. It's so easy to feel and yet so slippery to talk about. It's like a bar of soap in the bathtub - you have it in your hand until you hold on too tight. — Michael Jackson

It doesn't matter what kind of world we live in as long as we have each other. — Walter Wykes

Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain. — Allison Pearson

We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances have been found inseparable. We cannot penetrate into the reason of the conjunction. We only observe the thing itself, and always find that from the constant conjunction the objects acquire an union in the imagination. — David Hume

Quentin did a magic trick. Nobody noticed. They picked their way along the cold, uneven sidewalk together: James, Julia, and Quentin. James and Julia held hands. That's how things were now. The sidewalk wasn't quite wide enough, so Quentin trailed after them, like a sulky child. He would rather have been alone with Julia, or just alone period, but you couldn't have everything. Or at least the available evidence pointed overwhelmingly to that conclusion. — Lev Grossman