Yerbury Master Quotes & Sayings

Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors. — Kirby Wright

Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal. — Douglas Brinkley

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self. — Dhani Harrison

He didn't know how love managed to be a garden one moment and war the next. He was at war now, his loyalty tested at every turn. — Paula McLain

It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question. — Arthur Cohn

And the smoke rose slowly, slowly,
Through the tranquil air of morning,
First a single line of darkness,
Then a denser, bluer vapor,
Then a snow-white cloud unfolding,
Like the tree-tops of the forest,
Ever rising, rising, rising,
Till it touched the top of heaven,
Till it broke against the heaven,
And rolled outward all around it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel. — Irvine Welsh

I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If this be a just remark, it is unwise and improvident to vest in the general government a power to borrow at discretion, without any limitation or restriction. — Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society. — Winona LaDuke