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.

Clotilde Hesme

That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.

Common

When I started thinking about it, I was like, 'OK, if throughout time I get labeled as a conscious artist, I'll be very much celebrated, in a way, and honored.'

Carl Safina

To save the seas, we can eat sustainably and be conscious of the seafood we eat.

Antoine Rivarol

True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

Mal Moore

(The APR) has made everyone more conscious of what they're doing.

Todd Walker

That was a good test right there. I was telling Dusty, you never really know. You come out here and run, and you're conscious of it. When you're in the game, that's when the test comes, and I feel good.

Peter Singer

There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the fact that nonhuman animals are conscious beings, that they can suffer.

Peter Singer

Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.