"Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools because they have to say something." Unknown |
"Avoid popularity. It has many snares and no real benefit." William Penn |
"We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. (via Think Exist)" Henry Miller |
"Etc... A word used to make others believe that you know more than you actually do. (via Twitter)" Steven Winterburn |
"If a reader wants a nine letter word for 'sandwich shop' beginning with 7, you've mixed up the Sudoku and Crossword images again. (via Twitter)" FakeAPStylebook |
"'Let's eat Grandma!' or, 'Let's eat, Grandma!' - Punctuation saves lives. (via Jbulie's Blog)" Jbulie's Blog |
"I think semi-colons have gotten a bad rap. They should be re-branded as super-commas. (via Twitter)" Steven Winterburn |
"You may delay, but time will not." Benjamin Franklin |
"Some of us learn from other people's mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people." Zig Ziglar |
"Either you run the day or the day runs you." Jim Rohn |
"The ultimate inspiration is the deadline." Nolan Bushnell |
"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success." Anonymous |
"Most women's magazines simply try to mould women into bigger and better consumers." Gloria Steinem |
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." John Wooden |
"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works." Oscar Wilde |
"A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising." James Collins |
"Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they..." Tim Cahill, Travel Writer |
"No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything." Zane Grey |
"Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self." Barbara Walters |
"Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon." Edna Ferber |
"I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve." Jane Asher |
"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word." Catherine Drinker Bowen |
"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes." Arthur Schopenhauer |
"Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do your hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction." Kevyn Aucoin |
"Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colours." Pablo Picasso |
"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us." Franz Kafka |
"TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book." Anonymous |
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa, quoted in Linda Botts' 'Loose Talk'. |
"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all." Rita Mae Brown |
"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit." Henry B. Adams |
Submit quote