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.

C. S. Lewis

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

C. S. Lewis

The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.

Cecil Taylor

I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.

Cathy Moriarty

I think I'm plain. I'm normal. I'm plain. I try not to stand out. I don't wear colors.

Cecil Rhodes

I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race...If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible...

Cecelia Ahern

I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I can’t even think about what life “could have been” like in Boston, without crying. It’s like deja-vu, I don’t think me and Boston were ever meant to be.

Cecelia Ahern

well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going

Cecelia Ahern

I generally don’t become overexcited about things anyway, I’m just not one of those people. I’m not easily surprised by things either. I think it’s because I expect that anything can happen

Paul Henderson

When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly.

Richard C. Armitage

Light, trivial comedy does not appeal - it is not something I go to see.

Phil Ramone

Don't speak if you don't have to about trivia. The time for joking comes because of the trust, and you have to earn the trust. So, I don't alibi for anything, and I'll take the heat. That's the other thing. Don't let them take the heat. We take the heat.

Lynn Abbey

Im always trolling for trivia.

Susan Griffin

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

Sun Myung Moon

Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another.