Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Boris Pasternak

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Blaise Pascal

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Andrew Shue

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

Andrew Johnson

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

Anais Nin

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anais Nin

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

T. Harv Eker

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

Ray Lewis

You can't take no breaks.

Albert Einstein

I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.

Albert Einstein

I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.

Albert Einstein

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

Albert Einstein

One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.

Albert Einstein

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

Albert Einstein

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.

Alexander Lukashenko

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

Alexander Lukashenko

Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there...when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay

Dr. Seuss

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

Brandon Sanderson

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Brandon Sanderson

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

Anthony Shadid

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

Ben Mezrich

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

Ben Marcus

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

Ben Okri

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Barbara Kingsolver

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.