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.

Ben Mezrich

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

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

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Augusten Burroughs

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Augusten Burroughs

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

Augusten Burroughs

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. Everything I write is the truth and I know that I would win.

Augusten Burroughs

What I think of blogs is just this: Some are beautifully written and many are not. But even blogs that aren't necessarily "well" written are great for the person writing them.

Benjamin Disraeli

Meditation is culture.

Dalai Lama

If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.

David Lynch

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

Anne Lamott

I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.

Sonia Choquette

Use #‎ meditation as a tool to get quiet.

Sri Chinmoy

Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use.

Sri Chinmoy

When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously

Sri Chinmoy

Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God.

Sri Chinmoy

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

Sean Dockery

The team tried to tell him not to show it (in his) face. I think he did it for a second. But eventually, he calmed down.

Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.

Danny Sullivan

This will probably calm some of this thing down.

Javad Vaidi

We are here to find a compromise, which means we have to calm things down.

Donna Karan

Its all about finding the calm in the chaos.

John Milton

And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.

Mariano Rivera

I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.

Lucretius

Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?

Laurie Cook

But that has calmed down at this point.