Zippered Compression Quotes & Sayings

We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting. — Stephen King

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

if you keep interrupting your evening to check and respond to e-mail, or put aside a few hours after dinner to catch up on an approaching deadline, you're robbing your directed attention centers of the uninterrupted rest they need for restoration. Even if these work dashes consume only a small amount of time, they prevent you from reaching the levels of deeper relaxation in which attention restoration can occur. Only the confidence that you're done with work until the next day can convince your brain to downshift to the level where it can begin to recharge for the next day to follow. Put another way, trying to squeeze a little more work out of your evenings might reduce your effectiveness the next day enough that you end up getting less done than if you had instead respected a shutdown. — Cal Newport

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader. — Lydia Davis

Directing was a great experience, but it's terrifying to have the responsibility of carving up the other actors' performances. — John Krasinski

Forever used to feel like a curse. Now it feels like a promise. — Rachel Vincent

All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question. — Benazir Bhutto

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will. — Xenophanes

One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a previously private pleasure. Which of us hasn't been annoyed when a band, writer, artist or television series that had been a minority interest of ours has suddenly achieved mainstream popularity? When it was at a cult level we moaned at the philistinism of a world that didn't appreciate it, and now that they do appreciate it we're all resentful and dog-in-the-manger about it. — Stephen Fry

For every sad thing you think of, you should think of three happy things to chase it away. — Zoe Sugg

Most non-programmers don't think of plaintext like that. To them, text files feel like filling in tax forms for an angry robotic auditor that yells at them if they forget a single semicolon. — Robert Nystrom