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.

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Gloria Steinem

Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

J. K. Rowling

I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.

H. L. Mencken

One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing

H. L. Mencken

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Grace Paley

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

Gilbert Burnet

. . . for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst.

Jerry B. Jenkins

The most comforting feeling ever is knowing that someone truly likes your entire existence. I feel that way right now. Thank you.

Pauletta Vaughn

I feel like I've reached a milestone. This has been my passion. It's an accomplishment for me, knowing that the work I'm doing (is) going to save someone's life.

Masanobu Fukuoka

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

Marya Mannes

Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.

Martha Beck

What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.

Marshall McLuhan

Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

Pablo Picasso

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

Terence McKenna

Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

Thomas Aquinas

Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow that in Christ there was no movement of the will proper to human nature, for the good wills of other saints are moved by God's will... For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe