Famous Quotes & Sayings

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

Donald Barthelme

Write about what you're afraid of.

Donald Barthelme

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.

Don DeLillo

You become a serious novelist by living long enough.

Don DeLillo

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

Don DeLillo

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

Don DeLillo

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Demi Lovato

When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

Demetri Martin

I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

Dale Evans

I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

Dustin Clare

The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society.

Donald Trump

Business is full of complexities. That's what makes it so interesting. Anyone who thinks it's boring hasn't given it much thought.

Donald Trump

I just don't think Hillary Clinton has the presidential look.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Dalai Lama

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

Dalai Lama

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

Daniel Kahneman

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

Daniel Kahneman

... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question.

Conor Oberst

I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.

Ambrose Bierce

COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

Alison Bechdel

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Renee Fleming

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.