Ying Zheng Emperor Quotes & Sayings

It's nice to have something else going on when a book comes out so you're not just sitting by the phone, waiting for things to happen. You don't want to be the guy Googling himself all day. — Jonathan Dee

I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic. — Elizabeth Banks

Ray kept well away from the shed. He hated the loony gestures of the furniture, its bossiness, the way Maxine would shape a table to enclose the sitter at it, trapping him like a baby in a high chair or a school boy at his inkwell. — Helen Garner

A microphone fiend; I make beats do back flips. — O.C.

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers. — Thomas Jefferson

If knowledge is power, let's spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it. — Stuart Aken

You cannot be creative with people around you. — Karl Lagerfeld

It's the opening line of a football game returned for a touchdown. Or fumbled.

It's what orange juice is to breakfast, the first minutes of a blind date, a salesman's opening remarks.

It sets the tone, lights the stage, greases the skids for everything to follow.

It's the most important part of everything you'll ever write because if it doesn't work, whatever follows won't matter. It won't get read.

It's your opening paragraph. And enough can't be said about its importance.

Seduction. That's basically what leads are all about--enticing the reader across the threshold of your book, novel or article--because nothing happens until you get 'em inside.

And you literally have only seconds to do it because surveys show that eight out of ten people quit reading whatever it is they've started after the first fifty words. — Lionel Fisher

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. — W. Somerset Maugham

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing. — Cate Blanchett

Max looked around. "Where's your mutt?"
"Right here, asleep. He won't bite you again. I've talked to him about it, and he's really sorry — Rachel Gibson

Ah, mastery ... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills ... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. — Gail Sheehy

Such was the case with dead bodies. Every time you opened the box you could find anything from a ninety-five-year-old woman who died peacefully under home hospice care to a thirty-year-old man they found in a dumpster behind a Home Depot after eight days of putrefaction. Each person was a new adventure. — Caitlin Doughty

I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar

If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (John 8:31-32). When we wrap God's truth around us, it protects us by strengthening our core — Stormie O'martian