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.

Barbara Mertz

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

Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Brenda Ueland

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

Jane Hirshfield

The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.

Jami Attenberg

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

Jami Attenberg

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

Austin Mahone

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

Delta Goodrem

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Meditation is culture.

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

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

Sri Chinmoy

Meditate Silently. You will be able to create a totally new life for yourself.

Russell Simmons

Meditation helps everything.

Melody Beattie

...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

George Harrison

Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.

Gary Zukav

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

Eva Mendes

Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

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.

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.

Michael Tucker

It's a credit to her character that she was as calm as she was. All I did was keep talking to her as we went down the ladder.

Willie Williams

Working with family and members of the department, we will be able to calm her down and relax her to the point we will be able to get concisely whatever she had,

Gentry Affholter

We knew what to do, we just had to calm down.

Pam Thompson

We see kids all the time, and they are scared and sick. When children are scared and sick, it upsets their parents, too. We wanted to do something to help the child and to calm the parent.

Lou Fintor

We understand the sensitivity of this case and urge everyone to remain calm and resist efforts to exploit the situation.