Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

C. S. Lewis

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

Catullus

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

Catie Curtis

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

Catie Curtis

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

Cecelia Ahern

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

Cecelia Ahern

I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.

Cecelia Ahern

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

Cecelia Ahern

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

Cecelia Ahern

Empty words almost echo within themselves

William Shakespeare

If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

George Lucas

It echoes what is about to occur with Anakin.

Ben Wagner

It echoes really well in the Freehold Raceway Mall.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

I use the echo effect a lot when I DJ because it allows for smooth transitions, especially at different BPMs. It also adds a studio quality to live DJ performances.

Charles Dickens

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

Alan Parsons

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

Alan Moore

In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.

Charles Baudelaire

Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

Robert Frank

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

Pierre Schaeffer

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

Carl Gustav Jung

Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.

Frank Darabont

I find it doesn't pay to take oneself too seriously. And I like that sort of irreverence when I see it with other people.

Latin Proverb

What is done for another is done for oneself

Janet Frame

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Bruce Lee

To live is to express oneself freely

D. H. Lawrence

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Edsger Dijkstra

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.