Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Janet Jackson

I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.

Delta Goodrem

I love having my hair back. It is so important to how you feel, how you dress, how you look.

Demi Lovato

You know you've made it when you can dye your hair blue.

Billie Holiday

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

Broderick Crawford

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

Ben Hecht

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

Dave Mustaine

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

Paul Browne

You can literally travel around inside the mummy's head, ... You can see the hair is still on the child. You can see the pool of resin in the back of her head.

T. S. Eliot

To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.

Diana Wynne Jones

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.

Daniel Johnston

The sun don't shine in your TV!

Robert Adams

You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.

Vanilla Ice

I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

Rumi

Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.

Stanislaw Lem

I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

Shahid Afridi

I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave

Sue Monk Kidd

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.