Znaion Quotes & Sayings

As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise.
-Leonard Da Vinci — Leonardo Da Vinci

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. — Anton Chekhov

Along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world. — David Abram

If at first you don't succeed--write more! — N.B. Williams

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all. — Miguel De Cervantes

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.
-Lukas Jessen-Petersen — Paulo Coelho

Survivors create survival mechanisms. Mine is pushing through. I push everything to the side, out of my line of vision, out of my mind and I focus relentlessly on my goal. Not sure what you'd call it, but who cares? I'm a fighter and that's enough. I live each day happy to wake up each morning to my children's bright eyes and warm cheeks. If pushing through gives me more days with the family I've created, with my writing, with my loves - fine by me. Call it what you want. I call it living. -Broken Places — Rachel Thompson

I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first. — T. Colin Campbell

I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it. — Victoria Beckham

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can. — Bob Marley

Where's the cannon? — J.K. Rowling

The history of the human race has been one long quest to find new, novel things, and then kill, eat, or enslave them. There's a reason the aliens haven't made an appearance yet, is what I'm saying. The — Seanan McGuire

Have you ever even been dumped before?" Mac asked. "Yeah. Victoria Hanson." "You were seventeen then." "Still. I've been dumped and it sucked." "You got head in the library the next day." "That's how I grieve. — Lina Andersson

I don't know what understanding myself is. I don't look inside.
I don't believe I exist behind myself. — Alberto Caeiro

I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling of the material, I copy the material from each archive file across to the relevant chapter in the skeleton outline. — Antony Beevor