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| Whiskers Ink | "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt | | |
| Whiskers Ink | "You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus" - Mark Twain | | |
| jasipper | "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time."--T.S. Elliot | | |
| Kirby | "Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."- E.L. Doctorow | | |
| jasipper | "Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less travelled by...And that has made all the difference."--Robert Frost | | |
| I wannawrite | "I just want to dance in the moonlight with someone who also hears the music" | | |
| I wannawrite | When all else fails, WRITE! | | |
| Brian | "If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done." | | |
| SummerBreeze | "The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." -- Marcel Proust | | |
| Spunky | "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." -- Mark Twain | | |
| Spunky | "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." -- Socrates | | |
| Spunky | "Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." -- Spike Milligan | | |
| AlejaPoet | Only The Can Survive by Aleja bennett | | |
| turnerjk1 | "Be who you are and say what you like. Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Theodore Guisel | | |
| Stone2Ink | "There is a thin line between genius an insanity. I have erased this line." Oscar Levant | | |
| turnerjk1 | "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." - Mahatma Gandhi | | |
| Ben | "I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately. - Mark Twain | | |
| Ben | "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher | | |
| Ben | "Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be." - Karen Ravn | | |
| Ben | "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - André Gide | | |
| Ben | "Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman | | |
| Ben | "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill | | |
| Ben | "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." - Jules de Gaultier | | |
| Ben | "Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive" - Elbert Hubbard | | |
| mamund | "Life isn't complicated, it's just hard work" - anon. | | |
| abqwriter | Imagination is more important than knowledge. - albert einstein | | |
| abqwriter | Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - albert einstein | | |
| abqwriter | Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. - albert einstein | | |
| abqwriter | Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. -ayn rand | | |
| abqwriter | Speak when you are angry - and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. - laurence j. peter | | |
| abqwriter | Food is an important part of a balanced diet. - Fran Lebowitz | | |
| abqwriter | A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. - John Tudor | | |
| solemio | "T'is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Alfred, Lord Tennyson | | |
| solemio | GIVE PEACE A CHANCE! John Lennon | | |
| OnyxFlame | Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx | | |
| OnyxFlame | Explore your mind. It's the only one you'll ever have. - me | | |
| kaustav_kar | "He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning" | | |
| kaustav_kar | Minds are like parachutes. They function only when they're open | | |
| kaustav_kar | "The mind is capable of imagining, without the limitations of logic" | | |
| Lizzie | "I write for the same reason I breathe....because if I didn't, I would die." Isaac Asimov. | | |
| sharondeni | Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel, that you too, can become great.- Mark Twain | | |
| Sora | I don't suffer from insanity... I enjoy every moment of it ~Sora | | |
| Sora | You said you read me like an open book, but the pages are all torn and frayed ~Sora | | |
| Sora | The dreams that have shattered, and the friends we have lost... Never forget them ~ Yuna (Final Fantasy X) | | |
| Sora | Don't think outside the box... Obliterate it. | | |
| Sora | Technology is like a tempermental two year old; when you try and make it do something it doesn't want to, it'll dig it's heels in and make your life a living nightmare. ~Sora | | |
| Ben | "You miss 100% of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky | | |
| Ben | The secret of getting ahead is getting started. | | |
| Ben | "Gotta keep breathing, because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide may bring?" - Tom Hanks, 'Castaway' | | |
| Ben | "When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell | | |
| Gooblink | Marriage is a wonderful institution, if you want to live in an institution - Grandpa Prusi | | |
| jasipper | I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. -Robert Frost | | |
| BLKeller | "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." - Mark Twain | | |
| booklover | Opening a book opens up a whole other world to be discovered.-Kimberly | | |
| Ben | "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown Jr. | | |
| Ben | "Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." - Leonardo da Vinci | | |
| Ben | "Whatever you say, say it with conviction." - Mark Twain | | |
| Ben | "The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause." - Mark Twain | | |
| MDPulaski | "I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day." - Agatha Christie | | |
| Jess | "Don't let schooling interfere with your education." -- Mark Twain | | |
| booklover | Reading a book opens up a world like no other. -Kimberly | | |
| nothinglikethesun | "You may my glories, and my state depose. But not my griefs, still am I King of those" --Shakespeare | | |
| Fantasy | "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." - Bacon | | |
| Fantasy | "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." - Bacon | | |
| LadyJasra | "If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candle light, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you." -Henry Rollins | | |
| Catherine | Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect~ Mark Twain | | |
| Catherine | You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London | | |
| Catherine | Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ~Mark Twain | | |
| Catherine | You can always tell an Irishman. But you can't tell him much. ~unknown | | |
| Catherine | I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. ~Jonathan Winters | | |
| Catherine | I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.- George Burns | | |
| Catherine | Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.- Carl Sagan | | |
| tsunami slicer | TEETH has to Imbed GRIT into INTENSITY,When Working on a Story You want the Reader to 'FEEL'! | | |
| Ben | "Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." - Gloria Steinem | | |
| Ben | "I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others." - Moliere | | |
| yudelka | "If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf." ~ Thomas Fuller | | |
| BLKeller | "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." - Richard Bach | | |
| browneyedgirl | "Follow your own path, and let people talk." - Dante Alighieri | | |
| browneyedgirl | "There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." - Walter "Red" Smith | | |
| JABarnes | "Don't write because you feel you have to, write because it is who you are." | | |
| JABarnes | "All work and no play makes Johnny a dull boy!" - Jack Nickolson(The Shining) | | |
| JABarnes | "I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries." - Stephen King | | |
| JABarnes | When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time." - Stephen King | | |
| JABarnes | "We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones." - Stephen King | | |
| JABarnes | "Books are a uniquely portable magic" - Stephen King | | |
| jasipper | "If you see an adverb, kill it!" -- Mark Twain | | |
| Catherine | Remember, in regard to writing; imitation might be the best form of flattery; but they get the check if they publish it first~Catherine | | |
| daeddy70 | "It is the tale, no he who tells it." -- Stephen King | | |
| daeddy70 | "If you don't have time to read, you don't have time to write." -- Stephen King | | |
| LaMarqueza | "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." - Oscar Wilde | | |
| DarthSius | "I want only one thing, to write... to spin an epic so large and so great, that if Shakespeare were alive today would make him throw his quill away. Ahh, delusions of grandeur, you can take my sanity, my clothes and my confidence, but never these." - Anon. | | |
| Djokolot | "The price of leadership is responsibility." --- Sir Winston Churchill | | |
| jmar2 | (With apologies to The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, circa San Francisco, 1965.) Writing will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no writing. | | |
| Catherine | "Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones."~The Bible | | |
| Catherine | "Keep your heart with all diligence for out of it spring the issues of life."~The Bible | | |
| Catherine | "Judge not, and you shall not be judged: condemn not, and you shall not be condemned, forgive, and you shall be forgiven."~The Bible | | |
| Catherine | "What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse."~Ray Bradbury | | |
| Catherine | "All writing comes by the grace of God."~Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| entropy_happens | "Eternity is a very long time..." -Emerson | | |
| Catherine | A writer's life is never boring. We author our own chaos and joy.~Catheirne | | |
| DorianGrey | Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. -Kant | | |
| entropy_happens | The sky's not the limit--the ground is! | | |
| wickedhppy | "You can't live on love alone-coffee and muffins are better" My friend Fred | | |
| entropy_happens | "When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue; you sell him a whole new life." -Emerson | | |
| entropy_happens | One of the most feared expressions in modern times is "The computer is down." -Norman Augustine | | |
| entropy_happens | Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -Oliver Herford | | |
| entropy_happens | Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none. -Jules Renard | | |
| entropy_happens | I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown. -Tom Stoppard | | |
| emcollier | "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." - Ray Bradbury | | |
| emcollier | "When I stop the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing." - Tennessee Williams | | |
| emcollier | "Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader--not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."--E.L. Doctorow | | |
| DorianGrey | Never argue with an idiot; theyll drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. -no idea | | |
| meloncholy | "I dont know what Ceaser thought when he got to the Ides of March, I dont know what Houdini bought when he went to the store, but I sure do miss the 80's." -unknown | | |
| Shamari | "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." Ernest Hemmingway | | |
| SilverCrow | "One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." - Pres. G. W. Bush | | |
| SilverCrow | "I could be the walrus, it still wouldn't change the fact that I don't own a car." - Ferris Beuller | | |
| Fantasy | "An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards." F. Scott Fitzgerald | | |
| Fantasy | "O ye critics, will nothing melt ye?" Sir Walter Scott | | |
| Fantasy | "It is a fact that few novelists enjoy the creative labor, though most enjoy thinking about the creative labor." Arnold Bennett | | |
| Fantasy | "Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water." Robert Frost | | |
| Fantasy | "For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded." Sir James M. Barrie | | |
| Catherine | "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." ~Flannery O'Conner | | |
| stevedyas | "Variety is the spice of life." - Idiom | | |
| Ellen | "The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new" | | |
| rlstanfield | Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. George Washington Carver (c. 1864-1943) Botanist | | |
| rlstanfield | If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. -- Frank A. Clark | | |
| rlstanfield | "When you blame others, you give up your power to change." -- Douglas Noel Adams | | |
| rlstanfield | Most people see what is, and never see what can be. ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955)Physicist | | |
| rlstanfield | Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers | | |
| ex-smoker | Always look over your shoulder, you never know who might be behind you | | |
| Clicky | My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. - Abraham Lincoln | | |
| Catherine | "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." Walt Disney | | |
| entropy_happens | "The most important part of a story...is the ending. It's all that really matters in a story." -Johnny Depp, "Secret Window" | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge." - Mark Twain | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly." -Albert Einstein, March 13th, 1940 | | |
| printjunkie | "Don't die with the music still inside you." Florence Littauer | | |
| soulwriterink | if we are made for purpose, then i believe my purpose is write | | |
| soulwriterink | Don't hate me because I'm beautiful, Love me because I am not | | |
| soulwriterink | After all these years I finally learned what I'm going to write about: You! | | |
| boldulyses | "Nothing prepares you for life like living it. Doesn't seem at all fair." -BoldUlyses | | |
| OmenSpirits.com | "Better to live on the run, then die standing still!" -R.S.P. Lee | | |
| bongobro | Never do anything halfway! | | |
| MDPulaski | “I felt uneasy at posing as an expert on rhetoric, when the truth is I write by ear, always with difficulty and seldom with any exact notion of what is taking place under the hood.” -E.B. White | | |
| windxinxthexmeadow | "Half of me is all about apathy; the other half just doesn't care." --Matt Theisen | | |
| windxinxthexmeadow | "History is written by those who hang heroes." --Braveheart | | |
| windxinxthexmeadow | "You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman." --Fyodor Dostoevsky, from Crime and Punishment | | |
| Taliesin2 | They called me crazy, I called them crazy, and damn them! They outvoted me! - Nathaniel Lee, on being consigned to a mental institution, C 17th century | | |
| Mylhibug | In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson | | |
| jmar2 | "Magic can't work on stupid people" - Bana, a Ranger for the EMU in 2451 | | |
| jmar2 | We've fought man and beast together Liam. I've had one eye replaced, an arm and both legs. I've drowned, been thrown off a cliff and eaten by a droone. But this time, Liam, this time I'm scared. " - Bana, a Ranger for the EMU in 2451 just before his wedding. | | |
| leeann | A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. | | |
| SilverCrow | When writing, try to leave out the parts that most readers skip --Elmore Leonard-- | | |
| SilverCrow | Fiction writers tend to err either by making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former --Jim Harrison-- | | |
| jjcrooks | Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes -- Singer, Tori Amos -- | | |
| minou | There is no limit to the power of your mind. Concentrate on that thought. Fill your mind with the resolution to accomplish, and work toward your goals with positive actions. Keep driving the mind toward higher achievements. Paramahansa Yogananda | | |
| writeoff | Man was not designed to dream small, nor opportunity meant to be administered in small doses.--Stan Thomas | | |
| poetikgrl | "Words are the voice of the heart" - Confucius | | |
| writeoff | the only reason for being a writer is that you can't help it.-- Leo Rosten | | |
| Fantasy | "Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public." - Sir Winston Churchill | | |
| Fantasy | "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once." - Cyril Connolly | | |
| Blackheart | "Life is short, eat dessert first" | | |
| singingsilentshadow | "Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupidr than you really are is that very often, you succeed." | | |
| Ernestine | Writing has become such a process of self-discovery that I couldn't wait to get up in the morning. I wanted to know what I was going to say. *Sharon O'Brien | | |
| entropy_happens | When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is odd jobs. -Margaret Laurence | | |
| entropy_happens | In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. -Edith Wharton | | |
| entropy_happens | Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake. -Maya Angelou | | |
| entropy_happens | Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. -Jules Renard | | |
| entropy_happens | A book comes and says, "Write me." -Madeleine L'Engle | | |
| entropy_happens | If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. -Tennessee Williams | | |
| entropy_happens | The difference between the almost right word and the right word is...the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. -Mark Twain | | |
| Eyes_86 | "You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist." - Isaac Asimov | | |
| Eyes_86 | "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows." - Socrates | | |
| Eyes_86 | "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." - George Bernard Shaw | | |
| Eyes_86 | "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -George Bernard Shaw | | |
| Mylhibug | "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. - Thomas Jefferson" | | |
| Mylhibug | "Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." —Mark Twain | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could." - Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think." -Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Tis the good reader that makes the good book." -Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| OmenSpirits.com | Death---is saying I can't, I won't, & I will not- Omen '06 | | |
| OmenSpirits.com | Guns don't kill people, living does--- Omen '06 | | |
| OmenSpirits.com | Life is about the moments you live, not the regrets you feel--- Omen '06 | | |
| OmenSpirits.com | Never say what you don't mean, always stand behind what you say, & the truth is always the first choice--- Omen '06 | | |
| OmenSpirits.com | Writer's block is just an excuse for the lack of creative talent--- Omen '06 | | |
| Ellen | Writing is hard work. Aclear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard.---William Zinsser | | |
| Ellen | "Who am I writing for?" It's a fundamental question, and it has a fundamental answer: You are writing for yourself.---William Zinsser | | |
| jjcrooks | "If your ears are burning, someone is talking about you. If your ears are itchy, they are dirty." -- Comedian, Ellen DeGeneres | | |
| Yarnsalot | Writers will happen in the best of families. Rita Mae Brown | | |
| Yarnsalot | The universe is transformation; our life is what out thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius | | |
| Yarnsalot | If my doctor told me I only had six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood, I'd type a little faster. Isaac Asimov | | |
| Yarnsalot | Poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | |
| Yarnsalot | Wise quotes are easy to read but hard to live up to. | | |
| Yarnsalot | Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Stephen King | | |
| Yarnsalot | But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Lord Byron | | |
| Mayahon | When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks. -Bob Dylan | | |
| Mayahon | She's got everything she needs, She's an artist, she don't look back. She can take the dark out of the nighttime, And paint the daytime black. -Bob Dylan | | |
| Mayahon | Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola. Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola! - Bob Dylan | | |
| Mayahon | Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than people who are most content. - Bob Dylan | | |
| Mayahon | You always said people don't do what they believe in, they just do what's most convenient, then they repent. - Bob Dylan | | |
| Eyes_86 | "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -Solomon Short | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." - C.S. Lewis | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." - T.S. Elliot (1888-1965) | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent." - Sophia Loren | | |
| MDPulaski | "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over." --Ernest Hemingway | | |
| loudermilk | "Creativity is all in your head." -- I said that. | | |
| loudermilk | "Every Hun has value -- even if only to serve as a bad example." -- Atilla the Hun | | |
| wrtrsblck | To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act-Anatole France | | |
| bongobro | "Life is not a 50-yard dash, it's a marathon...it's never too late to begin and it's always too soon to quit!" | | |
| TheWriter | Ya cain't sing nothin' if ya ain't got nothin' to say- Shotgun Willie by Willie Nelson | | |
| sunflower42 | best antidote to ignorance is knowledge | | |
| sunflower42 | best remedy for inadequate skills is practice | | |
| JUkeJointJerry | "If this was easy, everyone would be doing it." | | |
| Blackheart | "Life is a precious commodity, live it wisely." | | |
| ShenaD | "Be carful of which doors you open for some are harder to close than others" ShenaD original | | |
| wrtrsblck | You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing-Michael Pritchard | | |
| dfletcher | If it weren't for excellence, what would we strive for? | | |
| Sheri | "Imagination can not be bound. Those who move mountains begin first by carrying away small stones." | | |
| Clicky | "Look! A Distraction!" - Jessica, my friend | | |
| Clicky | Love Conquers All | | |
| queenb | The moment we break faith with one another, The sea engulfs us and the light goes out.--James Baldwin | | |
| wrtrsblck | Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.~ Joseph Campbell | | |
| Sheri | DETERMINATION - What the mind of a person can conceive and believe, it can achieve. | | |
| Sheri | Success comes from within you but it is pushed forward by many more hands than your own. | | |
| Sheri | If you believe strongly enough in yourself, others will come to believe in you. | | |
| Sheri | In this world, I am only the person that I am. In my writing, I am everything and everyone. | | |
| jmar2 | We have met the enemy and he is us - Walt Kelly | | |
| jmar2 | Don't take life so serious son, it ain't no how permanent... Walt Kelly | | |
| idjohnson | He who lives, dies, He who dies, lives | | |
| Sheri | If you will not...you can not, If you will...you can! | | |
| soulcomfort | "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss | | |
| Sheri | In this life, the only thing that is truly easy to get is nothing. | | |
| Sheri | My writing is a world all my own, to which everyone and everything is invited. | | |
| Sheri | Opportunity comes knocking...but only if you call it up and ask it to come over. | | |
| JessicaLeigh | "All grown-ups were once children--although few of them remember it." --Antoine De Saint-Exupery | | |
| goobiesonvenus | Don't mind me. I'm just losing my mind over here. I do that once a month. Helps me stay in touch with my past. -Ted Dekker | | |
| Linda Adams | Creativity is controlled insanity -- Robert H. Adams. | | |
| Karls_Mommy | "Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast." - Douglas Adams | | |
| Karls_Mommy | "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams | | |
| yudelka | "I value honesty and advice. It's the only way to improve." ~ Joshua Sipper | | |
| dfletcher | I write fantasy fiction so my mind can accept brutal realism. Hopefully, my writing is a haven for others like me.- what I told a counselor when I was in High School. | | |
| bongobro | "On the road to happiness, there are many detours." | | |
| MDPulaski | “In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.”—Anne Lamott | | |
| queenb | Creativity is a drug I cannot live without--Cecil B. DeMille | | |
| queenb | You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. Ray Bradbury | | |
| queenb | If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou | | |
| queenb | A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. Charlotte Bronte | | |
| Farnswell | "Just because you're breathing doesn't mean you're alive" - John Farnswell | | |
| Farnswell | "Procrastination is inaction in action." - John Farnswell | | |
| KarenRankowitz | Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. | | |
| KarenRankowitz | The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. - George Orwell | | |
| KarenRankowitz | I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details - Albert Einstein | | |
| benu_bird | "Do or do not. There is no 'try'." - Master Yoda | | |
| kwbunyap | "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." -- Gandalf | | |
| entropy_happens | A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. --H.L. Mencken | | |
| entropy_happens | The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with. --Marty Feldman | | |
| entropy_happens | Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. --Terry Pratchett | | |
| entropy_happens | There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. --Salvador Dali | | |
| entropy_happens | The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. --Robert Benchley | | |
| Eric McCarty | “There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.” – Maya Angelou | | |
| Eric McCarty | “They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.” – Francis Bacon | | |
| Eric McCarty | “Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| Eric McCarty | "Don't blame your doubt if you fear belief." - The Waiting | | |
| Sarren | "I have never thought of writing for reputation or honor. What I have in my heart must come out, that is the reason I compose." -Ludwig van Beethoven | | |
| Sarren | "I have risked my life for my work, half my reason is gone." -Van Gogh | | |
| tammytull | "You can't fix stupid"- Ron White, comedian | | |
| M Rodgers | Always wait 24 hours before committing suicide. | | |
| M Rodgers | Ya gotta clean up the backyard before ya invite the folks to the Bar-B-Que - Rodgers | | |
| entropy_happens | "[Writers are] spies ke[eping] their eyes on suspicious characters, working on espionage, taking notes, observing particulars that everyone else overlook[s], scouring the world for clues of meaning." -Ted Dekker, from his novel Showdown | | |
| Sarren | Writers, Actors, and Politicians are all liars for a living. When you write, you're always lying to someone. Most of the time it is yourself, and most of the time it's because you're telling yourself you're not lying. | | |
| thewritingwriter | "Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing and it becomes chronic in their sick minds" -Juvenal (AD60-130) | | |
| entropy_happens | "This is all some sort of whacked-out conspiracy!" -DreamWorks' Madagascar | | |
| Catherine | Books are the carrier of civilization. ~Thoreau | | |
| Catherine | How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.~Thoreau | | |
| Catherine | If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ~Twain | | |
| Catherine | You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ~Twain | | |
| Raven | " If life is a piece of cake...how come I only get to lick the frosting?" - Doug "Hollywood" Davis | | |
| Catherine | Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art; to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul. - H.W.L | | |
| Catherine | I never knew so young a body with so old a head.~Shakespeare | | |
| angelinblack | Passing is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. Emily Dickinson | | |
| MellonCollie | The mirror shows many things- things that were, things that are and some things that might not yet have come to pass~ Lord of the Rings- The fellowship of the Ring | | |
| MellonCollie | Even the smallest person can change the course of the future~Lord of the Rings- The fellowship of the Ring | | |
| MellonCollie | I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, "Get off me, you two!" -- Emo Phillips (comedian) | | |
| pvinlskallinda | A great writer creates a picture with a story.........A great photographer creates a story with a photograph........L.S.Kall | | |
| kayebee | When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand. (Raymond Chandler) | | |
| pvinlskallinda | You cant schedule creativity.......L.S.Kall | | |
| Eileena | Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abraham Lincoln) | | |
| Eileena | A thing of beauty is a joy forever. (John Keats) | | |
| Eileena | The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust) | | |
| Eileena | If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud. | | |
| StephB | The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. - Robert Cromier | | |
| StephB | Footprints in the sand are not made by standing still. - unknown | | |
| john murtagh | If space and time, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The fly that lives a single day Has lived as long as we. But let us live while yet we may, While love and life are free, For time is time, and runs away, Though sages disagree. (TS Elliot) | | |
| MLOGAL | The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense. ~Tom Clancy | | |
| aforred | Sometimes you have to water the weeds before you can pull them. - Afton Forred | | |
| Arwen | Quoth the raven,"Nevermore" - Edgar Allen Poe | | |
| Mirth | We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope. (Romans 5:3-4) | | |
| Mirth | Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. (Hebrews 13:2) | | |
| Arwen | "Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books, surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore"-Edgar Allen Poe | | |
| Arwen | . . ". I could easily forgive HIS pride, if he had not mortified MINE." (Jane Austen) | | |
| psjake | there are no shortcuts to any place worth going! | | |
| psjake | nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else! | | |
| sylvie | So powerful is the act of kindness, it can change the course of a lifetime. | | |
| sylvie | Hope, is a state of mind. It is a part of ou spirit, our heart. Hope anchors us in this world. | | |
| sylvie | "Commit yourself to find the source of your spirit"-Anonymous | | |
| sylvie | "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."-Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| sylvie | "The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty, and truth."-Albert Einstein | | |
| SilverCrow | "Everybody wan go heaven, but nobody wan dead."-Old Jamaican saying- | | |
| vade mecum | The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton | | |
| vade mecum | Never, never, never give up.- Winston Churchill | | |
| Princess Belle | Failure more than success is the beginning of wisdom | | |
| joker7380 | If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. | | |
| joker7380 | Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. | | |
| joker7380 | Those who try to write something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. | | |
| joker7380 | Vision is the art of seeing things invisible | | |
| joker7380 | A poor writer is not that one without a cent. A poor writer is that one without a dream. | | |
| joker7380 | Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong. | | |
| joker7380 | It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. | | |
| kwbunyap | "I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil" - Gandalf | | |
| whyte_tiger | Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new - Albert Einstein | | |
| myfair_98 | He who loves books is never without a friend~Anonymous | | |
| whyte_tiger | Never underestimate a cat - or a boy who speaks their language -- Zizou Corder | | |
| janspain | When the phone rings in the middle of the night, be happy if it"s a wrong number | | |
| janspain | Be aware of that moment in time when a decision that you make can change so many other peoples" lives | | |
| goobiesonvenus | "The weak body fell easier to the knees than the strong one." -Rene Guttridge | | |
| goobiesonvenus | "When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." Desiderius Erasmus | | |
| goobiesonvenus | "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice." Cyril Connolly | | |
| rpkpol | "Write everyday, even if it's just in your head!" by rpkpol | | |
| rjnewbould | Stand still and look, until you really see.... | | |
| WriterKat | "I practice every single day so that even when I'm bad I'm good." Dizzy Gillespie | | |
| WriterKat | "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt | | |
| WriterKat | "I can shake off everything when I write." Anne Frank | | |
| WriterKat | "By listening to the stirrings of our soul and the whisperings of our own truth, we begin to shine our light and emerge as the person we were born to be." Kathleen Hassan | | |
| debo | "The only difference between fiction and real life is that fiction has to make sense." (I can't remember who said this!) | | |
| bediane | "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing," Benjamin Franklin. | | |
| joedemiro2020 | "If it was going to rain, we would have seen the clouds by now." | | |
| joedemiro2020 | I have requested of my darling wife of 35 years Victoria, if she outlives me, to have my body crem@ed with no fanfare, brought back home and placed in the library, next to the non-fiction books. | | |
| joedemiro2020 | "Patience Is Bitter But Its Fruit Is Sweet" Jean Jacques Rousseau | | |
| Composer | "If you do something great, you will probably be kicked in the teeth...Do something great anyway." Mother Teresa | | |
| cheetahracer | Don't judge a person until you walk a mile in their shoes; that way, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes - Frieda Norris | | |
| tgilli | "You can't wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club." -- Jack London | | |
| tgilli | I write to live, and I live to write. No apologies. | | |
| CrystalRavenGem | A fool will learn nothing from a wise man, but a wise man will learn much from a fool! - Lao Tzu | | |
| Composer | "A ship is safe in a harbor, but that's not what ships were built for." unknown author | | |
| tfrank | "I only do this until I get dizzy & then I lay down on my back & watch the clouds, she said. It sounds simple, but you won't believe how many people forget the second part." -Brian Andreas | | |
| JohnOBX | The pen is mightier than the sword and you should not confuse the two under any circumstances. Be persuasive, but don't try to poke your reader's eye out. ~ J.C. Towler | | |
| Composer | "Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossiblility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before. -Eleanor Roosevelt | | |
| Composer | "Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong." - Leo Buscaglia | | |
| desertrose | Bad spelers of the world...UNTIE! | | |
| breeze27 | "Life is a carousel of futhermuckers." -me | | |
| StrangerBaird | Tell all the truth/but tell it slant ~Emily Dickinson | | |
| StrangerBaird | He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperone. ~Douglas Adams | | |
| StrangerBaird | "Awake my soul! Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn." David ~ Ps. 57 | | |
| StrangerBaird | Dave Barry, on book tours: "Publishers send you on one because they believe that the book will be worth more if the author is dead." | | |
| StrangerBaird | There is a pleasure keen in being mad/Which none but madmen know. | | |
| StrangerBaird | Be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. ~Robert Southey | | |
| StrangerBaird | For last year's words belong to last year's language / And next year's words await another voice... ~T.S. Eliot | | |
| writing buddy | The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. - Mark Twain | | |
| jchambers | "ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh just 1.5 tons" - Popular Mechanics, March 1949 | | |
| Catherine | A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.~G.K.Chesterton | | |
| JohnOBX | If a picture is worth a thousand words an emoticon has to be good for at least two-fifty. ~ J.C. Towler | | |
| vade mecum | A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. Proverbs 25:11 | | |
| articulatekitten | Imagination is intelligence with an erection. --Victor Hugo | | |
| Bildad | If the knowledge held by man were to be placed in a single room, then the ignorance would fill the far reaches of the Solar System. (Thomas James Fullery) | | |
| Ames | "And don't you ever think of living in a small set of hills" - Dow Mossmann, from The Stones Of Summer | | |
| blueknight65 | when life troubles some they medicate themselves, when life troubles me I write | | |
| kathl | "a teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." Henry Adams | | |
| kathl | "Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it." Morrie Schwartz | | |
| kathl | "Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to." | | |
| kathl | There are no atheists in fox holes | | |
| Arwen9 | Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land in the stars.-unknown | | |
| Arwen | "I think, therefore i am"-Kant | | |
| Arwen | "well behaved women rarley make history" -unknown | | |
| Arwen | "no one can make you feel inferior without your consent"-Eleanor Roosevelt | | |
| janet | I think, therefore I am.(Cogito ergo sum) Rene Descartes | | |
| by the bay | Beyond all ideas of rightness and wrongness there is a field. I will meet you there. Rumi | | |
| Retzel | "The important thing is to never stop questioning" - Albert Einstein | | |
| Retzel | "If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is" - Angelina Jolie (from RD Asia) | | |
| shipgurl1 | "Love many, trust few, learn to paddle your own canoe"-AZ-U-C-IT | | |
| JonathanD | The world is infected with inspiration; open your mind and become contagious. | | |
| JonathanD | A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. - Ring Lardner | | |
| the_pratt | I can resist anything, except temptation - Oscar Wilde | | |
| Goldilocks | I'm a Flintstone living in a Jeston world-me | | |
| dquiggles | It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift | | |
| paperbackwriter | "'If you dream about being a writer you will die dreaming. Write and you will make it happen." L. Antal Voros | | |
| astaatz | I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. --Sara Teasdale | | |
| paperbackwriter | "Do you know what the best thing about being a writer is? You're sitting there reading your first draft. Just before you give it to an editor who couldn't do what you just did in a million years. And tears it all down." Sean Connery in Finding Forrester. | | |
| paperbackwriter | "Dear Sir or Madam will you read my book, it took me years to write will you take a look?" Lennon and Mc Cartney. | | |
| StolenTurtle | “So long, and thanks for all the fish.” –The Dolphins (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) | | |
| StolenTurtle | “We often fear what we do not understand; our best defense is knowledge.” -Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager) | | |
| StolenTurtle | “If you are lonely while you are alone, you are in bad company.” Jean-Paul Sartre | | |
| StolenTurtle | “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison | | |
| StolenTurtle | “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.” - Richard Nixon | | |
| StolenTurtle | “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until the other is ready.” –Henry David Thoreau | | |
| StolenTurtle | “Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three rights make a left.” –Cosmo (The Fairly Odd Parents) | | |
| inkslngr | "Things always look the darkest just before turning completely black." (unknown) | | |
| cmclayton | "Occasionally, an artist must play Russian roulette with madness before receiving a shot of reality." - C.M. Clayton | | |
| astaatz | If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -Abigail Van Buren | | |
| vade mecum | Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| vade mecum | Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so. --Marcus Tullius Cicero | | |
| alias13 | The worst thing that can possibly happen will make an excellent story later. | | |
| N2TUN | Don't put off until tomorrow what you can put off indefinitely. | | |
| Tim903 | The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between the firefly and the fire-Rod Serling | | |
| alwayswrite | "Want to make God laugh? Tell Him you have plans." -Anonymous | | |
| ex-smoker | Be careful of the "Coke" in a Coke. | | |
| Lori | If the process of writing is what makes you lose track of the passage of time as you do it, then writing is for you. Now all you have to do is figure out a way to get somebody to pay you for doing it. - Jeremiah Healy | | |
| irelocus | If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. ~ Ray Bradbury | | |
| irelocus | Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease. ~ Bill Maher | | |
| irelocus | There are lies, there are damn lies, and then there are statistics. ~ Mark Twain | | |
| irelocus | Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. ~ Mark Twain | | |
| nushagak27 | Sometimes I get tired of being creative, and just want to do what everybody else is doing. - Ashleigh Brilliant | | |
| irelocus | I watched you change into a fly, I looked away and you were on fire. ~deftones/Change (in the house of flies) | | |
| irelocus | It's time to bring the fire down, throttle all this indiscretion, long enough to edify and permanently fill this hollow. ~A Perfect Circle/The Hollow | | |
| irelocus | Give away the stone, let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges into gold. ~Tool/The Grudge | | |
| Catherine | Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity.~W.Faulkner | | |
| bohemie | "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from lack of imagination." --Oscar Wilde | | |
| crystalwizard | Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, unless you soggy and hard to light - Norman Bandauch | | |
| VLADILYNN | "First expression gives you a hint to know a person, But looking through deep inside makes you to see the truth"--VLADILYNN | | |
| irelocus | I'm the Mountain which the World climbs down from and I laugh because it tickles. ~ Sam | | |
| irelocus | I'm the World which the Mountain climbs down from and I laugh because it tickles. ~ Hailey | | |
| irelocus | Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ~ Sam and Hailey | | |
| irelocus | I’m going to Hell. Via Chicago. ~ Ezekiel Downs | | |
| irelocus | Learn to swim. See you down in Arizona Bay. ~Tool/Aenema | | |
| irelocus | Cause you're my girl, and that's alright. If you sting me, I won't mind. ~ deftones/RX Queen | | |
| irelocus | You like attention, it proves to you you're alive. Stop this faux to be famous. Confused? You'll know when you're ripe. ~ deftones/Elite | | |
| irelocus | You're into depression, cause it matches your eyes. Stop parading your angles. Confused? You'll know when you're ripe. ~ deftones/Elite | | |
| lstaab84 | "If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."--Henry Miller | | |
| VLADILYNN | "One who is kind,expressive and optimistic will rise to be meteoric"---white wave | | |
| VLADILYNN | "Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side"---La Rochefoucauld | | |
| vntgdncr | "Only those who dare to fail greatly ever achieve greatly." Robert F Kennedy | | |
| vntgdncr | "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail " Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| calli | "Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip its been." - Grateful Dead | | |
| JohnOBX | There are no new ideas, just new ways to write them. | | |
| butterfly kisses | Live well, laugh often and LOVE MUCH | | |
| EzRytr | "A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand" | | |
| irelocus | Do you like the way the water tastes? Like God's fire. You knew that it was never safe. ~deftones/Beware | | |
| irelocus | High on the waves you make for us, but not since you left have the waves come. ~deftones/Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event | | |
| VLADILYNN | Remember,success or accomplishment in life is not a matter of some great force or influence,rather it is the small voice speaking from within you;which becomes the influence through which movements of truly great forces really arise"~Vladilynn | | |
| JohnOBX | The hero must bleed. | | |
| lgwyant | "I'd rather be silent and thought a fool, then speak up and remove all doubt" - Abe Lincoln | | |
| lgwyant | "Spend each day to the fullest, you won't get a refund when life's over" - lgwyant | | |
| Monkhouse | "Writing is my love life." -- James Tribbitt | | |
| PaoHdez | "If God is for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31) | | |
| black_petal | It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted in a sick world. | | |
| irelocus | And I really wish these snakes were your arms. ~deftones/Kimdracula | | |
| irelocus | We must be the first ones in the world to fall off of the earth. ~deftones/Bloody Cape | | |
| AUTHORPRUDE56 | Think before you speak,keep your joy. | | |
| black_petal | You write the book you want to read. ~Gail Collins | | |
| irelocus | You have to give up. You have to realize that someday you will die. Until you do that, you are useless. ~Tyler Durden/Fight Club | | |
| irelocus | The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. ~Chuck Palahniuk | | |
| AnuksunaMun | Whoever said that nothing was impossible never tried slamming a revolving door ~ anonymous | | |
| AnuksunaMun | Take each step like your true love is behind you ~ LVB Valentine | | |
| AnuksunaMun | I brain is something you think with, a mind is something you thought with ~ LVB Valentine | | |
| AnuksunaMun | And lo, God said: Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me, and let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan ~ personally unknown | | |
| paperbackwriter | "If you want it bad enough. You will make it happen." | | |
| paperbackwriter | I forget who. "It is not necessary for one to drink to be a writer. However, I have written things while drunk I never would have thought of sober." | | |
| Arwen | Im going back to the start - Coldplay | | |
| Arwen | Some say you're trouble, boy. Just because you like to destroy , All the things that bring the idiots joy. Well, what's wrong with a little destruction? -Franz Ferdinand | | |
| wandaehrlich | Some day I shall speak and they will listen with both ears, someday I shall write and they shall hear my beating heart "we" | | |
| Arwen | "Forget guy's I'm getting a smoothie" | | |
| Arwen | And if the silence takes you then I hope it takes me too -Death Cab for Cutie | | |
| Bodicea | "Don't be so humble. You're not that great." --Golda Mier | | |
| D_S | If you are humble, nothing will touch you- neither praise nor disgrace-because you know what you are. -- Mother Teresa | | |
| JohnOBX | Strangers have the best candy. | | |
| VLADILYNN | Upwards and downwards is part of the real life....Vladilynn | | |
| Arwen | "Never let a kiss fool you, or a fool kiss you "-Unknown | | |
| Nico Corvus | "It can't rain all the time." Brandon Lee from THE CROW | | |
| black_petal | In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ~George Orwell | | |
| VLADILYNN | Do what've said and not what I do...Vladilynn | | |
| lithium99 | "Until you have become really, in actual fact, a brother to every one brotherhood will not come to pass." Fyodor Dostoevsky 'The Brothers Karamazov' | | |
| lithium99 | “… We should fear those things alone that have the power to harm. Nothing else is frightening." Dante's Inferno II - lines 88-90 | | |
| tcnate | Nothing external to me can have any power over me. - Walt Whitman | | |
| tcnate | That is what learning is: you suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. - Doris Lessing | | |
| tcnate | Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. - Schiller | | |
| tcnate | Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. - Wendell Berry | | |
| tcnate | To oppose something is to maintain it. - Ursula LeGuin | | |
| tcnate | Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of our best people. - George Ade | | |
| lastwrites | I write my heart and bleed the words to sustain my soul~Could be you or me | | |
| JohnOBX | If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is not for you. | | |
| Laura_j74 | Keep dreaming, but don't imagine they'll all come true. | | |
| RaleighDodger | What must it be like for a suicide coming down from a high ledge? I'm sure it must be a very sane feeling. That's probably why they scream all the way down. - Stephen King, from Rage | | |
| RaleighDodger | By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes... - Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth | | |
| RaleighDodger | "Never take the reader where the reader wants to go" - Sol Stein | | |
| RaleighDodger | "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" - President Merkin Muffley | | |
| RaleighDodger | "Don't get it RIGHT the first time, just get it WRITTEN." - James Thurber | | |
| lastwrites | "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." - Ludwig Wittgenstein | | |
| lastwrites | "This isn't right, this isn't even wrong." - Wolfgang Pauli | | |
| lastwrites | "The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright | | |
| SanStormin | "The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time". –James Taylor | | |
| Sugarbaby884 | If at first you don't succeed...... go back and rewrite it!!!! | | |
| JonathanD | There are not stupid questions... so why can I think of so many? - JonathanD | | |
| PaoHdez | "What are you getting so bent out of shape for? It's not like we agreed to live together forever. We're not Bert and Ernie!"-Joey from the show Friends | | |
| Eyes_86 | "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." -Albert Einstein | | |
| Eyes_86 | "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." - Albert Einstein | | |
| LoveSunDaze | "You can lead a horticulture, but you cannot make her think." ~Dorothy Parker | | |
| jchambers | I write to discover what I know. –Flannery O’Connor | | |
| fkh0647 | The mind I love must still have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of--and paths threaded with those little flowers planted by the mind. ~ Katherine Mansfield | | |
| dgford | "Just remember that no one can really fall flat who believe their world to be round. And believe me when I say that this site will have you circling the globe. (Or at least will have you running in circles)" DGFord | | |
| dgford | "Welcome aboard and don't forget to buckle your seat belt, unless your state doesn't require it." DGFord | | |
| Hazel Rozalia | The mind is a like a Christmas gift. It just has to be opened ~ Myself | | |
| Capitalist_Pig | "At some point, something had to come from nothing." -Aristole | | |
| Kevinjsainte | Every minute you choose to judge a person's life, a minute of your life is wasted. | | |
| Kevinjsainte | "If I believe my writing makes sense, I should open up my heart, breathe through my fingertips, and let the rest of the world breathe me in." | | |
| rjlanning | Hollywood's definitions of Comedy & Tragedy: A comedy has a happy ending. A tragedy ends with a rejection slip. --RJ Lanning | | |
| righton | Free your mind and the rest will follow... | | |
| Mauvekat | "It is not really a failure unless you learned nothing from it." (Unknown) | | |
| Gef | "I'd rather be rich than stupid." - Jack Handey | | |
| RaleighDodger | "Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else" - George Halas | | |
| Kirby | "Strive for progress, not righteousness." -Inspired by the bible | | |
| rraven | "Three...Two...One...KABOOM!" --raven at a construction site (from Birdbrains) | | |
| Brian | “Gossip, n.: Hearing something you like about someone you don't.”--Earl Wilson | | |
| Brian | “Gossip, n.: Hearing something you like about someone you don't.”--Earl Wilson | | |
| SilverCrow | "Good fiction comes from having something to say, and then saying it well, regardless of what the market wants. You don't write to an audience or for an audience, you write something that will create an audience. Good fiction always finds its own fans, creates its own readers" --James A. Richie | | |
| whenuwish1 | "A dream given a deadline becomes a goal." -- some smart motivational guru | | |
| Capitalist_Pig | "I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." -Woody Allen | | |
| rraven | People who think they knw everything make it especially difficult for those of us that do -- Author Unknown | | |
| rraven | Come to the dark side...we have cookies -- Author Unknown | | |
| RaleighDodger | "Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader; not the fact that it's raining, but the feeling of being rained upon." - E.L. Doctorow | | |
| bookwriter | "She felt as if her life had always been moving toward this moment." Queen Esther | | |
| looneywriter | Stay away from people who belittle your dreams! - Unknown | | |
| lilia | Writing is a precious commodity, and a link between peoples of the world. | | |
| RayVee | "Success is progression toward a worthy goal." - Earl Nightengale | | |
| looneywriter | Remember, the direction of your life is more important than its speed. - Unknown | | |
| looneywriter | If you stop learning, you stop living. - my grandpa | | |
| looneywriter | Ride, boldy ride! The shade replied, if you seek for El Dorado. - Poe | | |
| midknight | The best way to lose weight is to put down one's fork sooner. | | |
| midknight | Remember: Yesterday does not count. Only tomorrow. | | |
| looneywriter | So much depends on a red wheelbarrow, glazed with rainwater, beside the white chickens. - William Carlos Williams | | |
| looneywriter | Tomorrow is no place to place your better days. - Dave Matthews | | |
| writermom2661 | Luck is when preparation meets opportunity | | |
| asimon | Life only sucks when things aren't going well | | |
| Capitalist_Pig | Everything comes back to food in the end. Even alternative universes. -drjones99 | | |
| hobbyx | "Our lives begin to end the day, we become silent about things that matter" MLK | | |
| hobbyx | Success knows no age | | |
| hobbyx | "I'm not the smartest tool in the shed" Linda-1 hour photo | | |
| Arwen9 | There is a solution to every problem. I just haven't discovered it yet. | | |
| dgford | Life is in the learning - dgford(Greywolf) | | |
| irelocus | Nietzsche is dead - Signed; God | | |
| irelocus | An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. ~ Ghandi | | |
| irelocus | The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt | | |
| irelocus | The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith | | |
| irelocus | I am not going to change, see? ~ President George W. Bush (January 8, 2004 Meet the Press) | | |
| irelocus | In the attempt to defeat terrorism, let us not become the enemies we deplore. ~ Barbara Lee, American Congresswoman, who alone voted against Bush's war escalation | | |
| irelocus | Gwynne Dyer captures war's essence when he contends that, by becoming soldiers, "Men agree to die when we tell them to." | | |
| DeMartino | Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That'll teach you to keep your mouth shut. - Ernest Hemingway | | |
| lazuraus | writeing is from the soul and your good imagenation allways be happey with a new idea | | |
| Hawaii6U | "A beauty is a women you notice; a charmer is one who notices you." — Adlai Stevenson | | |
| Hawaii6U | "In order to understand life, we must first live it." — Steven M. Weyerts Jr. | | |
| Hawaii6U | "4 out of 3 people can't do fractions." — Unkown | | |
| Hawaii6U | "For whatever it's worth, it isn't." — Steven M. Weyerts Jr. | | |
| Hawaii6U | "Words are everything: choose the wrong ones, and it could ruin your life forever; choose the right ones, and it could not only change your life, but, more importantly, it could change the lives of the people around you." — Steven M. Weyerts Jr. | | |
| janet | I think, therefore I am. Descartes | | |
| dgford | Eagles up always, computers down too much of the time | | |
| looneywriter | Remember that success depends on your being first, best, or different. - Unknown | | |
| amara03 | Good things, when short, are twice as good. - Gracian | | |
| amara03 | English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment, and education--sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. - E.B. White | | |
| Radcliffe | Writers are those who can put their thougts into words and then share them with their readers---By Radcliffe Zhu | | |
| PamC | They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe | | |
| calli | Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. - Jane Wagner | | |
| calli | Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. - Charles Caleb Colton | | |
| calli | Never judge a book by its movie. - J. W. Eagan | | |
| calli | I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight. - Robin Green | | |
| calli | Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. - Mike Ditka | | |
| Cgates | You can quote me as being misquoted - Groucho Marx | | |
| Brak | Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt | | |
| Brak | Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. - Ayn Rand | | |
| Brak | A little boy was having difficulty lifting a heavy stone. His father came along just then. Noting the boy’s failure, he asked, "Are you using all your strength?" "Yes, I am," the little boy said impatiently. "No, you are not," the father answered. "I am right here just waiting, and you haven’t asked me to help you." - Author Unknown | | |
| Brak | Unless we can hear each other singing and crying, unless we can comfort each other's failures and cheer each other's victories, we are missing out on the best that life has to offer. The only real action takes place on the bridge between people. - Author Unknown | | |
| Brak | Lord, I don't ask for a faith that would move yonder mountain. I can take enough dynamite and move it, if it needs movin'. I pray, Lord, for enough faith to move me. - Norman Allen | | |
| Brak | Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. - Thomas J. Watson | | |
| michaeljvaughn | This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be hurled with great force. -Dorothy Parker | | |
| ahaven | A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Fortune Cookie | | |
| ahaven | Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. ~Jorge Luis Borges | | |
| ahaven | If you're going through hell, keep going...Winston Churchill | | |
| Chien | I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can Borrow. - Woodrow Wilson | | |
| Chien | Tough times never last, tough people do. - Robert Schuller | | |
| Chien | An objection without a plan is a dream. - W. J. Reddin | | |
| Capitalist_Pig | "All generalizations are false, including this one." -Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) | | |
| Capitalist_Pig | "Yes, the pointy end goes in the other man!" -The Mask of Zorro | | |
| Halibut Woman | We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream... - Willy Wonka | | |
| WordMan | Writers write, right? | | |
| Manifestations | "You can't discover your Soul Purpose, unless you Seek it" Manifestations | | |
| megor72 | Whether or not you write well, write bravely - Bill Stout | | |
| megor72 | No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one - Robert Byrne | | |
| Sabbathknight | This over-stimulation causes violent muscle activity and malfunctioning of the various body organs. Most profoundly affected is the brain, which ceases to function before the body stops it's danse macabre. | | |
| Stargirl | Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected? - dollar store magnet | | |
| Stargirl | The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates | | |
| MDPulaski | “If you wish for any measure of success, add value to your dream every day.”—Jed Jahn | | |
| wigal | The hardest to make truly was how he had felt and keep it untinctured by how he had felt later. --Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden | | |
| wigal | The way to get to the top is to get off your bottom. -- fortune cookie | | |
| Dark Magik | Wishes deny reality. They feed us our own false hopes in a attempt to enlighten our lives so that we may think that tommorow will be a better day than yesterday, when in reality, it is basicly the same.-Me. | | |
| Dark Magik | Fairy tales surpass reality. Not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us how we can defeat them.- Unknown | | |
| Dark Magik | People who think they know everything annoy those of us who do.- Unknown | | |
| Dark Magik | A focused mind is one of the most powerful forces in the universe.- Fortune cookie | | |
| Dark Magik | The kind of advice we do not like to take often turns out to be the best.- Fortune cookie | | |
| Dark Magik | Optimists believe we live in the best of worlds and pessimists fear this is true.- Fortune cookie | | |
| Dark Magik | There's nothing more dangerous then a idea if its the only one you have.- Fortune Cookie | | |
| Dark Magik | There are three types of people in the world, people who can count, and people who can't.- Unknown | | |
| Dark Magik | If there was no night, then we wouldn't know the stars exist.- Unknown | | |
| JohnOBX | If it’s too good to be true, then it’s a Nigerian 419 scam. --J.C. Towler | | |
| glecharles | Live out loud. --Emile Zola | | |
| sharons | "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." | | |
| sharons | Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor - Jackson Brown | | |
| Vendora | "Unwritten words fade in our minds but unspoken words plague us forver." | | |
| Shaka | Thank goodness for all of the things you are not! Thank goodness you are not something someone forgot! -- an old man in the Desert of Drize | | |
| Spottedgloucester | Right what you no. | | |
| Savage Quill | "Fear...it is the natural mechanism to attempt to survive the encounter of that which we do not understand." | | |
| Spottedgloucester | No conflict? No story. Just a bunch of anecdotes. | | |
| RhiannonCirce | "If you don't laugh, you cry." | | |
| Alheezy | Two wrongs don't make a right, but four rights will bring you back to where you started. - Alheezy | | |
| Alheezy | Sometimes in life you have to do things that make no sense to make sense out of things. - Alheezy | | |
| Alheezy | Bravery denotes a hero, fearlessness denotes a fool. - Alheezy | | |
| angelwilliams | "Writing becomes the second window of a person's soul the moment the world fails to see into a person's heart." | | |
| calli | Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. - Thomas Berger | | |
| Deb E | Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're probably right. | | |
| Jeques | 'Tis great to think with a free mind, 'tis wonderful to love with an unrestrained heart." My Mantra and an excerpt from my 8-day series poem: "Changes" - Jeques | | |
| prismfx | "Never force one character to carry the whole burden of a story, which could be shared by two for the same price. Nothing. You have the pen, paper and power. | | |
| Uncleben | "Laughter doesn't Have a Foreing Accent"...Benjamin Suarez Jr. | | |
| Uncleben | "I want to write a book that I would like to read" | | |
| Uncleben | "To quit smoking, is very easy...I've done it thousands of time"......Mark Twain | | |
| VLADILYNN | so focus on your natural gifts rather than striving to be something *you're not*.....Vladilynn | | |
| Capitalist_Pig | Give someone a clipboard, and they lie. Yet, people are still send out with surveys. The results are extremely heartening on the state of things. Did you know that 80% of people are CEO's of their own company and make over a million dollars a year? -Douglas Adams | | |
| wildstrawberries | "Laughter negates many insults" | | |
| Capitalist_Pig | The heron is a different color when it stands in snow. -A Zen saying | | |
| TraciG | He who takes offense when no offense was meant is a fool. He who takes offense when offense was meant, is a greater fool. | | |
| TraciG | You are unique, just like everybody else. | | |
| TraciG | No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt | | |
| TraciG | Today is a beautiful day. | | |
| TraciG | I'll start procrastinating tomorrow. | | |
| TraciG | Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions; they're are easier to handle than dumb mistakes. | | |
| RaleighDodger | "Women will sleep with you if you write a book?"..."Women will sleep with you if you write a bad book." - Finding Forrester | | |
| pat roe | After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. he said "No hablo ingles"...Ronnie Shakes | | |
| TraciG | I'm lost. I've gone to look for myself. If I should return before I get back, please ask me to wait. | | |
| pat roe | laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.... Elsa Maxwell | | |
| pat roe | true success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful....Paul Seeny | | |
| Kathie Blog | Life is too short for drama and petty things, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly. -unknown | | |
| Uncleben | Men that create war,never fight in them...Benjamin, Viet-Nam Vet | | |
| Nocdar | "...the joy is in the journey, rather than the destination..." ~Stephen King | | |
| Nocdar | "If I wasn't (mad), this'd probably never work." ~Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Carribean 3 | | |
| GirlieGirl | No thought lives in your head rent free. -- Robert Allen | | |
| JohnOBX | I'm going to go play with my imaginary friend now and pretend that you're not real -- by JohnOBX (as far as I know) | | |
| knorthcott | "The more you try to understand the less you find you know." - Floater | | |
| knorthcott | "I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade; then find somebody whose life has given them vodka and have a party!" - Ron White, Blue Collar Comedy Tour | | |
| VLADILYNN | "Yesterday Ended Last Night"..................Vladilynn | | |
| Perior | If the glory of a man’s house is in his mouth what will our words build us. | | |
| TraciG | Just do it. If it hurt, don't do it again. | | |
| Nocdar | "I saw this guy hitchhiking with a sign that said 'Heaven.' So I hit him." ~ Steven Wright | | |
| writermax | "Write what your heart says and your mind knows, then be sure to revise." Mark Bouton | | |
| damienrentale | Do or do not...there is no try. | | |
| fairchdr | Genetically speaking, why do indecisive squirrels proliferate? -- Don Fairchild | | |
| BlackWlf | “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” --E. L. Doctorow | | |
| Writer Gurl 4 Life | Never let go of love, because love will never let go of you. | | |
| Writer Gurl 4 Life | Hope is always there, even when your at your worst. | | |
| knorthcott | There is no such thing as a sane writer.... (knorthcott) | | |
| dignatron | only impossibility is impossible | | |
| Writer Gurl 4 Life | Never fear anything but fear because fear it's self itis the one who is fearful. | | |
| Nocdar | "If I'm not doing two things at once, I'm sleeping." ~ Donald Conrad | | |
| SDToad | "Illusion can't be eaten, but it fills."~Gabriel Garcia Marquez | | |
| Capitalist_Pig | "If those lazy savages get hungry enough, they'll figure out how to put a seed in the ground. No, she's going to teach them African women how to wear brassiers." -from the play Dearly Departed | | |
| randomone18 | Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. | | |
| randomone18 | Originality: the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. | | |
| aesop2 | The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass every day. | | |
| Capitalist_Pig | "How do you Americans say.. Neener, neener, neeener!" -Nightcrawler from the X-Men | | |
| Nutbrown | "You don't see things as they are. You see them as you are" | | |
| dignatron | to find happiness, each one of us must follow our true path. Just because someone isn't walking your road, doesn't mean he has failed. | | |
| eagletom | Is it faster to Chicago or by train? Mark Frederick | | |
| Nocdar | The sad part of any journey is that there must inherently be a destination ~ Donald Conrad | | |
| JohnOBX | "Suffering has never been made a prerequisite for deductibility."--US Tax Code | | |
| ebalston | You will always be able to convince the ignorant that something terrible is happening | | |
| Savage Quill | "Sometimes the lessons in life that are best remembered are the ones learned the hard way." | | |
| Capitalist_Pig | "Good books make good writers, and good writers, good books." ~Abellona Alexis | | |
| logophile | "Imagination is better than knowledge, knowledge is limited... imagination encirlcles the world!" --A. Einstein. | | |
| Capitalist_Pig | "Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing." -Dr. Laurence J. Peter | | |
| Casey | I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. | | |
| Alhazred | "I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth..." -Hamlet | | |
| Arwen9 | Never argue with your characters-they always win...me | | |
| Stargirl | No, I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. ;) | | |
| LoneWolf62 | "It's never too late to be what you might have been." | | |
| Writer Gurl 4 Life | Never say no to anything but no. | | |
| Writer Gurl 4 Life | The only thing you should regret in life are the risks you never took. | | |
| peggimann | "The difference between a smart person and a wise person is that a smart person knows what to say and a wise person knows whether or not to say it." | | |
| Savage Quill | "The feather of a Phoenix can enscribe words that never die, remember that." | | |
| janersh | "Being normal is not necessarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Stockard Channing, Practical Magic | | |
| volleytime | "If you're thirsty, you are already a quart low." | | |
| Nocdar | "If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." ~ Elmore Leonard | | |
| wildstrawberries | To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. | | |
| Sabbathknight | "It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude." H.P. Lovecraft, 'Cool Air' | | |
| Sabbathknight | "Inaction in itself is a form of action." | | |
| Sabbathknight | The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by | | |
| Sabbathknight | When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before | | |
| Sabbathknight | "...you bought a mask, I put it on, you never thought to ask me, if I wear it when you're gone..." -Andrew Eldritch | | |
| Sabbathknight | "Its only after we've lost everything, that we're free to do anything." | | |
| Sabbathknight | In visions of the dark night,I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light, Hath left me broken hearted. | | |
| Sabbathknight | Every soul is worth selling but not all are worth buying... | | |
| Sabbathknight | Choose your path and walk it. Leader or loner, either one is better than lackey. | | |
| Sabbathknight | "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate it's contents"--H.P. Lovecraft | | |
| Sabbathknight | " You give but a little when you give your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truely give." | | |
| SDToad | "The tension you feel before dying is the feeling of being alive."--Ray | | |
| SDToad | "I am who I am"--Renton Thurston | | |
| SDToad | "Don't beg for things. Do it yourself or else you won't get anything."--Adrock Thurston | | |
| SDToad | "Writing comes more easily if you have something to say."--Sholem Asch | | |
| Camalus | "Without Darkness, would we truly know what Light is?" | | |
| Camalus | "Sometimes writers write to right the wrongs" | | |
| shorty | "God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent."-Dean Inge | | |
| Nocdar | Confucius said: "Learning without thinking is useless; thinking without learning is dangerous." ~ The Analects 2:15 | | |
| nhtstkr | Beware the person who knows everything, it's a sure sign they don't. | | |
| michele | I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe. -Albert Einstein | | |
| michele | Truth is revealed in communication. Perfect communication is achieved in silence. -S.K. Majumdar | | |
| ROMEO525 | You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. | | |
| ROMEO525 | A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. | | |
| ROMEO525 | Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. | | |
| peggybfun | Why, darlin', just because I TALK slowly doesn't mean I THINK slowly... (said a Southern girl attending Vermont College ADP). | | |
| Sabbathknight | "Quantity has a quality all it's own" -Joseph Stalin | | |
| mimi | “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” ~ John C. Maxwell | | |
| Meldozy59 | Forgiveness is the gift you give your self in order to move on...Melody H. | | |
| calli | A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - Thomas Mann | | |
| calli | Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis | | |
| calli | Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. - Langston Coleman | | |
| Daydreamishly | "Your mom goes to college." -Kip Dynamite | | |
| lplogs01 | The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| lplogs01 | Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut (God Bless You Mr. Vonnegut, you will be missed) | | |
| GirlsNGlasses | Early to bed and early to rise makes Jack a dull boy. -- me | | |
| Lauren | "Fiction is not an imitation of life - it is a reflection" ~ can't remember | | |
| Stargirl | Nitwit, oddment, blubber, tweak! -Albus Dumbledore | | |
| Stargirl | When it comes to friends, it's quality, not quantity, that counts. -Lilo (from Lilo and Stitch) | | |
| PearlCrescent | "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde | | |
| PearlCrescent | "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." - Oscar Wilde | | |
| C'C' | I didn't come this way by chance...I took a chance and came this way | | |
| harpsmorrow | Can I get any help? | | |
| harpsmorrow | will someone answer me | | |
| blaiz12 | You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.-- Octavia Butler | | |
| Rebecca Elswick | Do or Do Not! There is no try! - Yoda | | |
| Charlene Smith | The question is not how we will die but," what will we do before we die?" | | |
| cecilla | Call me when you're ready and I'll already be standing next to you. | | |
| Charlene Smith | A young person knows the answers but,an older person knows the questions. | | |
| Nickster25 | "Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for." -Dag Hammarskjold | | |
| Nocdar | Tis just a flesh wound ~ The Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail | | |
| KeithMN | I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. - J.K. Rowling | | |
| Warboycat | "One loving thought, spoken each day, is a short, but sweet, way to pray." ~ Cathleen Hellems Warboy | | |
| Arwen9 | The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything--Teddy Roosevelt | | |
| Arwen9 | Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.--Sir Winston Churchill | | |
| Arwen9 | The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. --Teddy Roosevelt | | |
| Damienrentale1234 | It is said when moments lived...once lived..become part of destiny | | |
| Stargirl | Quack, quack! -First said by Mr. Duck | | |
| Stargirl | Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon, doesn't mean we all have! -Hermione (to Ron, in OotP) | | |
| Machiavelli | that nothing is so weak or unstable as a reputation for power which is not based on ones own forces, Machiavelli, The Prince. | | |
| dgford | W"hen writers try to fly their works, some of them fall down. But they must always flap their wings - to get off of the ground." DGFord | | |
| Gabrielle | "God makes all things beautiful in its time." Ecclesiastes 3:11 | | |
| cadl | "Eeyore was saying to himself, "This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it."" - Winnie The Pooh | | |
| estebanpina | "I don't care about reviews, I consider myself a writer as opposed to an author. A writer sells books." - Mickey Spillane | | |
| estebanpina | "There are three rules to writing fiction. Unfortunately no one knows what they are." - Somerset Maugham | | |
| estebanpina | "The first draft of anything is crap" - Ernest Hemingway | | |
| estebanpina | "Writing is easy. You just sit down at the typewriter and open a vein." - Red Smith | | |
| estebanpina | Writing is like fishing. You set the manuscript on the hook. Cast the line and hope for a nibble and if a publisher doesn't bite, repeat the process. - Estebanpina | | |
| Dave-AR | "Those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strentgh-they will run and not grow weary" Isah 40:31 | | |
| CinCin | "If ever you think you cannot play the part, ask yourself if you've ever auditioned." ~Lucinda Brooke | | |
| CinCin | "To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions" ~Deepak Chopra | | |
| CinCin | "I would rather build my life around things that really count, rather than things that are merely countable" ~Author Unknown | | |
| CinCin | "Many people have gone further than they imagined they could because somebody else thought they could." ~Author Unknown | | |
| Kirby | "One must first know the rules to break them." - William Strunk, Jr. | | |
| Nocdar | "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." ~ William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway) | | |
| Capitalist_Pig | We all have moments of self doubt. You can't let it get to you. Think more about why you write and why it's important to you. What are your goals? What is it you really love about writing? All of these things are so much more important than the 'maybe' of failure. Even if you do fail, which is a big maybe, what would that mean? Come to think of it, what is failure? Would you be a failure if you were a bad writer? If you didn't publish? If you published but no one bought your book? If everyone bought your book but the critics panned you? If the critics loved you but you didn't win the awards? The only one who can judge whether or not you are a failure is yourself. Don't write thinking about the opinions of others, the maybes, the scary outcome. For me, the biggest failure would be if I wanted to write but I didn't because I was afraid. That's failure. - Jai Joshi | | |
| camper | There is nothing more sinister a person could do, than to give an aspiring young writer a thesaurus and no dictionary to accompany it. ~ D. Curtis Carber | | |
| dbaisden | "We are consumed by the siren song of cultural conformity." Hank Hanegraaff | | |
| Snarlyman | "You have nothing to fear but fear itself. And, of course, an axe murderer in your tool shed." - Home Simpson (from the comic) | | |
| Snarlyman | "To find the right book at the time when the soul is hungry for it; that is a miracle and no small one." - Unknown | | |
| Snarlyman | "A book is a movie inside of your mind. The imagery supplied by the author combined with your own imaginative thought. What wonderous universes are created? What connections are made between author and reader? A form of telepathy unparralleled; for there are no pictures already presupposed to impress upon your mind. There is but the reader and the author and the picture show of the soul." - C. Michael Stewart | | |
| mcedave | Anybody can be somebody because God didn't take time to make a nobody - my mother | | |
| Snarlyman | Nothing ever happens without a reason; sometimes we look at things and wonder why this or that had to happen. Life is like a giant cross-stitch; from below we only see the knots and errant threads; but let us wait until it is finished and we will be able to see the full design. | | |
| Snarlyman | Benjamin Franklin said that the burning of books was the ultimate in tyranny. What of those who have never been properly taught; is not that a greater victory by that great and terrible tyrannist: Ignorance. | | |
| Snarlyman | "Just because a man is lost in thought does not mean that he is idle; there is visible work and invisible work." - Victor Hugo | | |
| Snarlyman | Let the voice of the character tell you where to go. Those characters which take on flesh are those who had agency in the plotting. | | |
| hypnic jerk | Good writing creates not the fact that it’s raining but the feel of being rained upon. | | |
| Nocdar | "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." ~ Groucho Marx | | |
| Snarlyman | A true classic creates within us, the reader, a sense of emotion towards the characters in the book. We laugh, we cry, we hate, and we love. No matter how we view the character at the end, we discover that we have been made whole, made aware, of anothers point of view; from thus, as a mind shaped with new ideas, we never retain our original dimensions. | | |
| Charlene Smith | The greatest teacher in life is life itself... | | |
| spanishgirl | New wrighters are like growing flowers, they need room to grow.~Ginny | | |
| Snarlyman | A man cannot think lofty thoughts when his mind is upon his belly. - C. Michael Stewart | | |
| Snarlyman | A fool does not learn from his mistakes; a wise man learns from his; the wisest man learns from the others. | | |
| Damienrentale1234 | wriitng is like the NFL."Not for Long when you use no grammar | | |
| camper | Practice may not make perfect, but without it you won't even come close. ~ D. Curtis Carber | | |
| Pines | I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. | | |
| str8shooter | "All we get to keep are the memories; you've got to make the good ones last." Michael Stanley | | |
| Snarlyman | "A pen well put to paper thrusts into the reader a sense of shame; a sense of humanity; a sense of responsibility." | | |
| ReptileFreak | "Do or do not, there is no try | | |
| Stargirl | Don't worry about what other people think about you. Be yourself, that's cooler than shoving yourself into a jello mold to be popular. ~ me (: | | |
| Stargirl | Yeah, I'm a loser; but I'm the coolest loser you'll ever meet. | | |
| irelocus | Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. ~Fight Club | | |
| JWMetcalf | There is so much that I wanna say to you but there's a show coming on that I wanna watch.~~ Al Bundy | | |
| kurtcarlton | "Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others." -Virginia Wolfe | | |
| Nocdar | Don't worry about what other people think - They don't think very often ~ seen on bumper sticker | | |
| LaylaMarie | "Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." | | |
| Vance Lethurin | "An insult isn't always what someone says to you, its what they mean't when they said it." | | |
| Vance Lethurin | "If thou shalt not kill, steal, lie for personal gain, have envy, or have any other god before him; then thou shalt not be human, for those are the traits that make us human. God himself is incapable to change that, unfortunately, as we have all seen before." | | |
| Vance Lethurin | "Writing is how we express our opinions when it is too difficult to express them in speech." | | |
| samnmaine | "Writing is easy. All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead." -- Gene Fowler | | |
| strangelove | "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one that thinks differently." -- Rosa Luxemburg | | |
| Skip Cooper | "You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken." -- Dr. Phil | | |
| Skip Cooper | "A cat can have kittens in an oven, but that don't make 'em biscuits!" --Quanell X | | |
| Skip Cooper | "Sorry doesn't put thumbs on the hand, Marge!" -- Homer Simpson | | |
| Skip Cooper | "September the 4th, 2001, I stood in the ruins of the Twin Towers. It's a day I will never forget." -- George W. Bush | | |
| HarleyQ0103 | If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving me" -W.H. Auden | | |
| Nocdar | "Modesty is related to difidence, difidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive." ~ Dean Koontz in The Husband | | |
| TraciG | Guns don't kill people. Husbands that come home early from work kill people. - Larry the Cable Guy | | |
| Capitalist_Pig | What happens in (Washington) D.C., stays on youtube. - Jeff Dunham | | |
| heathermoreland | "Mercy triumphs over judgment."- James 2:13 (NKJV) | | |
| Dave-AR | Many times a letter from heaven comes in a black bordered envelope.-C H Spurgeon | | |
| dgford | "Anyone who can make me smile - just made my day!" DGFord | | |
| goldkey | A man whose course is charted by others is no more a captain than the fly on a floating leaf. Charles H. Keller | | |
| Beach | War does not determine who is right, war determines who is left | | |
| Happy Jak | "We must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy us."--Ray Bradbury | | |
| Jazzhead | "My only respite and steam valve escape is drunkenness, drugs, and jazz." - Allen Ginsberg | | |
| UnspokenDream | "Humans have a knack for choosing precisley the things that are worst for them." - Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore | | |
| xxCalicoxo | Its Not A Persons Perfections That Makes Them Unique, I'ts There Imperfections. | | |
| xxCalicoxo | Wisdom is a much more valuable thing than money. | | |
| xxCalicoxo | "If you don't change with the times, the times will change without you." | | |
| xxCalicoxo | Its NEVER Too late for anything. | | |
| xxCalicoxo | Never Say Never. | | |
| xxCalicoxo | Procrastination is the theif of time. | | |
| christene1valkyrie1 | I stand in silence as all around me those tiny white flakes gently fall on my upturned face...a sweet tentative touch...a caress: a cold caress that warms my heart...CBJ | | |
| OmenSpirits.com | Writers don't read & artists don't think. Both should learn how- | | |
| christene1valkyrie1 | “Living, really living is not just acceptance, it is reaching out and eagerly grasping that which is presented and given………CBJ” | | |
| xpoperator | "You cannot solve a problem with the same consciousness that created it." - Einstein | | |
| thejade | "A smart man covers his ass; a wise man leaves his pants on." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Great thinkers have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds." --Albert Einstein | | |
| thejade | "I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers." --Peter Kaye | | |
| thejade | "I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?" --Tom Clancy | | |
| thejade | "99% of lawyers are giving the rest a bad name." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "A bad plan is better than no plan." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "All true wisdom is found on T-shirts." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Any clod can have the facts, but having an opinion is an art." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Bald guys never have a bad hair day." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Could crop circles be the work of a cereal killer?" --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Crime doesn't pay... does that mean my job is a crime?" --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Cult: It just means not enough people to make a minority." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Dawn is nature's way of telling you to go to bed." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Don't steal a police car unless you're prepared to floor it all the way to Mexico." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Don't trust reality. After all, it's only a collective hunch." --Anonymous | | |
| thejade | "Early to rise, and early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead." | | |
| thejade | "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." | | |
| thejade | "Everything is always okay in the end, if it's not okay, then it's not the end." | | |
| thejade | "First rule of acting: whatever happens, look as if it were intended." | | |
| thejade | "Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen." | | |
| thejade | "For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong." | | |
| thejade | "Goals are deceptive. The unaimed arrow never misses." | | |
| thejade | "If all the cars on the Earth were lined up bumper to bumper, some idiot would try to pass them." | | |
| thejade | "If at first you don't succeed, look in the trash for the instructions." | | |
| thejade | "If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0." | | |
| thejade | "If homosexuality is a disease, can I call into work 'gay'?" | | |
| thejade | "If two wrongs don't make a right, try three." | | |
| thejade | "Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse." | | |
| thejade | "Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him." | | |
| thejade | "Never get into fights with ugly people; they have nothing to lose." | | |
| thejade | "# Never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake." | | |
| thejade | "Never test the depth of the water with both feet." | | |
| thejade | "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." | | |
| thejade | "Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it." | | |
| thejade | "Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee." | | |
| thejade | "Of course there's no reason for it; it's just our policy." | | |
| thejade | "Only the winners decide what were war crimes." | | |
| thejade | "Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all of my base are belong to you." | | |
| thejade | "Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy." | | |
| thejade | "The chance of a piece of bread falling the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet." | | |
| thejade | "The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." | | |
| thejade | "The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before." | | |
| thejade | "The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it." | | |
| thejade | "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics." | | |
| thejade | "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." | | |
| thejade | "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research." | | |
| thejade | "Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." | | |
| thejade | "Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair." | | |
| thejade | "Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear." | | |
| thejade | "We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police." | | |
| thejade | "What happens if you get scared half to death twice?" | | |
| thejade | "When someone points skyward, it's the fool that looks at the finger." | | |
| thejade | "When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly." | | |
| thejade | "Work harder: millions on welfare depend on you." | | |
| thejade | "You're only young once, but you can be immature forever." | | |
| dgford | "Stay who you are - right where you are." | | |
| dgford | "I love learning new things, and I especially like surprises - but only the kind that come in a box with a bow on top."(D.G.Ford) | | |
| Trank | "Death is only the Beginning." (Unknown) | | |
| Trank | "Taken out of context, even a Compliment sounds Insulting." (T.W. Izer, 2007) | | |
| MDPulaski | "Amateur writers who post their own quotes don’t realize how lame they sound." – Anonymous | | |
| GlaeWitch | When you think it's finished is when it's just getting statred." | | |
| Nocdar | "Grave digger, when you dig my grave, could you make it shallow, so that I can feel the rain. ~ Grave Digger Lyrics by Dave Matthews | | |
| Hockeyknight | "If I quit now, they win!" - Fox Mulder, X-Files: Fight the Future | | |
| CCE | "I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me, and 90% how I react to it." - Charles Swindoll | | |
| CCE | "GiGo - garbage in, garbage out. Feed me words." | | |
| dgford | "You can fool an adult, but don't try and kid a kid, they see right through you." D.G. Ford | | |
| Write2know | "The Dictionary is the only place where 'success' comes before 'work' -- Anonymous | | |
| yakmaster | "Today's happiness is tomorrow's joys"-Me | | |
| bucke20 | Any avenue of pleasure is just the mere use on insanity gone right. Greg Freier | | |
| freckledauthor | "If you wish to practas the art of fiction, to be the equal of any mascalin author, experiance is vital." Tom LeFroy | | |
| dgford | " Small comes in many shapes and people." by D.G. Ford | | |
| Stargirl | Say huh what? ~ My 12 year old sister, Sierra | | |
| LynnEllen | "Free your mind." - Morpheus | | |
| LynnEllen | "There is no spoon." - Neo | | |
| LynnEllen | "I always thought you were a guy." --"Most guys do." (Neo and Trinity in 'The Matrix') | | |
| lcjameson | Dissent is the highest form of patriotism - Thomas Jefferson | | |
| CrstlnWriter | Easy reading is damn hard writing. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne | | |
| CrstlnWriter | Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness. --- Georges Simenon | | |
| bongobro | Everyone thinks that he knows it all...until he shows everyone how wrong he is...--bongobro | | |
| bongobro | If we could take only one thing from everyone we meet, just imagine your library! --E. A. Phrogge, musician | | |
| Ink For Blood | "Ah, literature. Most is written by hand, the better bits are written with one's head, but the best literature of all pours from the heart, the soul, the intangible fibers that make our hands move without thought. Move the pen not with neural signals, but with heartbeats and feelings. You cannot see or touch them, but they are the writer's realest tools." | | |
| nisha | If you do not experience life, life will experience you. | | |
| SDToad | Meetings are sudden but through them we change and move forward. Farewells are also sudden, but you can't linger on the moment.--Norb | | |
| SDToad | Whoever said that first love is both sweet and sour is dead wrong; it's only bitter.--Renton Thurston | | |
| SDToad | "Don't beg for things; do it yourself, or else you won't get anything."--Adrock Thurston | | |
| soon2be | "What we need are ridgedly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty"-Douglas Adams | | |
| soon2be | "Some people are like slinkies...Not really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs." | | |
| soon2be | "I distrust those people who know so well what god wants them to do because, I notice it always coincides with their own desires"-Susan B. Anthony | | |
| soon2be | "A synonym is a word used in place of one you can't spell." | | |
| soon2be | “Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges." | | |
| Bobbiewriter | " Never regret what you did because at one point of time it was exactly what you wanted" -Bobbie Leanne | | |
| Genghis Bob | "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock" - Will Rogers | | |
| Genghis Bob | "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Ben Franklin | | |
| Genghis Bob | "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke | | |
| slowginfizz | Once in a while it feels good to do something out of the ordinary--Me | | |
| xxCalicoxo | Never have regrets, because at one point or another, you did EXACTLY what you wanted. | | |
| xxCalicoxo | Its a persons IMPERFECTIONS, that make them UNIQUE. | | |
| Bobbiewriter | I'll show you a world unlike any other; your own imagination. --Bobbie Leanne | | |
| Saphira | "No Sacrifice, No Victory" | | |
| Bobbiewriter | A life without love isn't a life at all--Bobbie Leanne | | |
| Bobbiewriter | To conform is like eating the same thing everyday, you'll get sick of it.--Bobbie Leanne | | |
| Bobbiewriter | Beauty is only skin deep.-- Momma says. | | |
| lorilynn | "Be the change you want to see in the world."- Gandhi | | |
| Hawaii6U | "Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway." —Stephen King | | |
| Hawaii6U | "You may have heard of me." —Kvothe | | |
| Hawaii6U | "If you're going to win a debate, you must first learn to hold your tongue." —Steve Weyerts Jr. | | |
| Nocdar | "I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they kill, there would be no more war." ~ Abbie Hoffman | | |
| Rvpen20 | "No man is an island"- Homer | | |
| Tall Tales | "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." --- Mark Twain | | |
| DreamQueen74 | "If red is passion and blue is friendship, in a relationship, you want purple." ~ an acquaintance from college | | |
| DreamQueen74 | "Querer es poder (to want is to be able)" ~ Spanish proverb | | |
| DreamQueen74 | "Death and life are in the power of the tongue..." ~ Proverbs 18:21 | | |
| DreamQueen74 | "After you've done all you can, you just stand." ~ Donnie McClurkin | | |
| DreamQueen74 | "My cat's breath smells like cat food." ~ Ralph Wiggums, "The Simpsons" | | |
| kingac | "If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regrets?" - Sarah McLachlan | | |
| raymondstary | "Never ask a man if he's from Texas. If he is, he'll tell you. If he isn't, no need to embarrass him." LBJ | | |
| wannabewriter | Take imagination by the hand and never let go, with it you are never alone and your life is never dark for long. | | |
| DreamQueen74 | "Me fail English? That's unpossible!" ~ Ralph Wiggums, "The Simpsons" | | |
| wings | "Nothing Matters unless someone CARES!"~ Wings | | |
| pianotuna | "Move toward what scares you" LN a.k.a. "Mr Spock" | | |
| Adamishere | "I'm too drunk, to taste that chicken"--Ricky Bobby | | |
| BIGbrittany | For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks... the work for which all other work is but preperation. ~ Rainer Marta Rilke | | |
| BIGbrittany | Get wasted on love, get wasted on life, get wasted on anything, so get wasted with me. ~ L.P. | | |
| BIGbrittany | Take me from this world, butterfly's and girly-girls, why must we be pretty to be seen, to even be. ~ Marisa Lauren | | |
| BIGbrittany | I was uncool before uncool was cool. ~ a really cool sticker | | |
| BIGbrittany | burito taco taco!!!! | | |
| BIGbrittany | burito taco taco!!!! | | |
| Januaryman | "Kill, kill, kill. Chop, chop, chop." ~ Jason Voorhees, editor | | |
| Mistycal | If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one...he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.-Honore de Balzac | | |
| Mistycal | Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil - but there is no way around them.-Isaac Asimov | | |
| Mistycal | We are solely defined by endurance, not occurrence.-Misty R. Walker | | |
| Mistycal | Love demands persistence. Life's ultimate prize requires the ultimate test.-Misty R. Walker | | |
| Mistycal | True love is THE commitment to endure within reach of hell's salivating flames.-Misty R. Walker | | |
| raymondstary | "...fiction is melody, and journalism, new or old, is noise." Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | | |
| DB=1 | Patriots are the stars that make a country's horoscope. - Aida Bode | | |
| raymondstary | "Fiction writers are not customarily persons in the best of mental health." Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | | |
| witchykym | Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. (bumber sticker) | | |
| 21st century poet | If an Eagle flies in stormy weather, and a pigeon flies in cool weather, which one is the strongest and free? | | |
| 21st century poet | The morning brings the song birds out for you to see. | | |
| 21st century poet | Stand your ground and face the weather. Why count it all if no lesson is solved? | | |
| 21st century poet | Even though the worm knows its doom, that doesn't stop him from enjoying his day. | | |
| loveself | Take back your mind so you can be creative - L. Taylor | | |
| loveself | At some point in this human experience, the highest level of sadness beget the highest level of love--L. Taylor | | |
| loveself | When I am no longer a slave, the world shall be free-> L. Taylor | | |
| loveself | My mind remembers, but my heart forgives---L. Taylor | | |
| loveself | The world is a dangerous place, not because of the people that do evil, but because of the people who do nothing about it---> Albert Einstein | | |
| laceyjade | Do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. ---The Bible | | |
| Bobbiewriter | Open the minds eye, and go through a world that no one can see other then you.--Bobbie Leanne | | |
| emanresu | "That which is too dumb to be said, is often sung"- Voltaire | | |
| emanresu | "Abundance makes me poor"- Ovid | | |
| emanresu | "There are no interesting people in Heaven."- Nietzsche | | |
| emanresu | "I am more than tricky when there's a chance to se my friends in greater agony."- Dante | | |
| danquill | "If you catch an adjective, kill it." Mark Twain | | |
| Nocdar | "Rarely is the question asked: 'Is our children learning?'" ~ George W. Bush | | |
| Januaryman | "God help me, I'm having flashbacks to things that never happened." ~ Bob | | |
| Dimonah | It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. ~John Bytheway | | |
| nascarkid09 | "The winner isn't always the guy with the fastest guy son, it's the one who refuses to loose." Ralph Earnhardt | | |
| DickCheney | "You work late and fight off your boss. Your patient dies, you take the night off." -Brand New | | |
| DickCheney | "Let you fall for every empty word I say." -Brand New | | |
| DickCheney | "Big Gulps eh? Well, see you later." -Harry | | |
| DickCheney | "So, Peter, what's happening?" -Bill Lumbergh | | |
| Bobbiewriter | Recognize what is and forget what was.--Bobbie Leanne | | |
| kegwai | You can't run away forever, but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start." -Meat Loaf | | |
| EmBanks | "One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty." - Jane Austen | | |
| Horror_Writer | "In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection."-Farrah Gray | | |
| Gmz1023 | "in my theory it would take 3 men to topple the world government. One to guard the door, 2 to turn the key" | | |
| primetime_09 | "He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man." -- Dr. Johnson (Hunter S. Thompson) | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "To be in touch with reality whilst being an advid writer would be insane." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "Insanity is a way of life - reality is not mandatory." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "Although I speak highly of insanity, it is only because I am so." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "The future shall never come - we will always be chasing, speaking, and think if it, though. We've lived the past, embrace the present, and wonder of the future." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| stick.figure | Life is like a maze, there are many twists, turns, choices, and dead ends. ---stick.figure--- | | |
| GeekDaddy | And so the world ends, not with a bang but with an </HTML> | | |
| stick.figure | A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. ----Marilyn vos Savant---- | | |
| DragonBlue | In a Universe of Justice the Eyes of Truth are Always Watching YOU!--Enigma | | |
| GeekDaddy | Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? | | |
| GeekDaddy | You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. | | |
| LadyElisabethe | "Be the change you want to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi | | |
| DragonFly | When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. - Emerson | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "They call me Chick... Crazy Chick." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| Blueocean | The pen is mightier than the sword. And stronger is the learned tongue than the war-bred hand which wields the mightiest weapon. For a sword may fell but one foe at a time, but a word fitly spoken may raise up an army to fight, or quell the wrath of the same. ~ Amanda M. Peterson ~ | | |
| Nocdar | "...because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself." ~ Stephen King in Duma Key (pg. 327) | | |
| Blueocean | If at first you don't succede, then skydiving probably isn't for you. | | |
| Blueocean | What do you mean by, 'self-diagnosis isn't a good thing.'? I should know better than anyone if I'm crazy or not. - Regina Cary | | |
| Blueocean | To err is human. But to really screw things up, you need a computer. | | |
| Leigh Landon | It is never too late to be who you were meant to be - George Eliot | | |
| dgford | "Beauty is more than skin deep if found at the heart of the matter." D. G. Ford | | |
| garden_ladybug | "Never be afraid to try. Amateurs built the Ark and professionals built the Titanic." -- Unknown | | |
| vikinggirl1989 | a book is nothing to the ignorant eye; but if someone comes and opens it, it becomes an adventure.- me | | |
| vikinggirl1989 | "if you're gonna lose, lose BIG!" | | |
| Mr. Hamlet | Tis' not failure to not be able to reach the stars, tis' failure to not have a set of stars to reach for. | | |
| Mr. Hamlet | Friendship is like glass, solid in the beggining. Problem is, when it's broken, the glass will always have cracks. | | |
| Mr. Hamlet | It's one of the strangest ironies in this strange life, those who subjects themselves to the strictest discipline; who give up certain pleasurable things to acheive a goal, are the happiest people on earth. | | |
| Mr. Hamlet | Love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no ones looking. | | |
| zarks | "I hate being organic. Somedays it works. And somedays, like today, it really really doesn't." -- Deb Atwood | | |
| Kirby | "I'm a drinker with a writing problem." -Brendan Behan | | |
| reconley | "The fallen tears will become pearls of a new necklace." Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poetess | | |
| scasha | Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about getting out there and dancing in the rain. | | |
| kingac | "I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours, but I think that God's got a sick sense of humour, and when I die I expect to find him laughing." - from "Blasphemous Rumours" Depeche Mode (Martin L. Gore) | | |
| kingac | "You ask me what's my pleasure, a movie or a measure; I'll have a cup of tea, and tell you I'm not dreaming. Dreaming is free." - "Dreaming" - Blondie (Deborah Harry) | | |
| Hislil'writer | I'm in my own little world. It's okay, people know me here. ~Unknown | | |
| Hislil'writer | Some days, simply living is an act of courage. ~Anonymous | | |
| Johnnyrussell | "If you don't discipline your children others will, and they may not do it with love" -- Johnnyrussell | | |
| kingac | "How many wishes fade to nothing when they face reality?" - from "Rumour" by Bel Canto | | |
| Nocdar | "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home" ~ Ken Olsen, President, Founder, and Chairman of Digital Equipment in 1977 | | |
| AzTheKid | education is a perennial and ubiquitous endeavor in which one should never expect to succeed or fail ~self | | |
| AzTheKid | its true one can learn a lot from reading, but try writing ~self | | |
| AzTheKid | life is not what is and what isn't, its what else ~self | | |
| AzTheKid | dont wait on the meaning of life, for its already passed you by ~self | | |
| AzTheKid | if i wish to be virtuous, virtue is at hand ~confucius | | |
| AzTheKid | extra-cubic cognition? para-rhombic sentience? this is dandy, but in truth people only remember our actions. ~self | | |
| AzTheKid | its true writing is an extension of our thoughts, and therefore we are always working; but im not getting paid to think. ~a note to self :) | | |
| AzTheKid | we only overcome obstacles by learning to cope with them ~self | | |
| AzTheKid | the idealist will tell you what should be done, the realist will tell you how to do it. but only through collaboration do we progress ~self | | |
| AzTheKid | until we understand conciousness at birth we must suspend the effort to understand conciousness at death, the only time proven to be relevant is alotted between the points which cap our existence. ~self | | |
| Nocdar | “Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien | | |
| stick.figure | Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. --Peter de Vries-- | | |
| wings | Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. --Oscar Wilde | | |
| wings | All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.--Ambrose Pierce | | |
| wings | You might have all the knowlege with plenty of education and think you are king of the hill, but why have you forgotten that you once also started at the bottom? ~wings | | |
| Holly Mrald Dae | The only way not to be disappointed about something is to no get excited in the first place. | | |
| stick.figure | "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none" --Thomas Carlyle-- | | |
| KAD | You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt | | |
| zarks | "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. " Albert Einstein | | |
| zarks | "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax" Albert Einstein | | |
| zarks | "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." Albert Einstein | | |
| zarks | "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. " Albert Einstein | | |
| zarks | "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." Albert Einstein | | |
| zarks | "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." Albert Einstein | | |
| zarks | "Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration" Thomas Edison | | |
| zarks | "Time is an illusion you say? Hell. And I was just getting dressed for dinner." Groucho Marx | | |
| zarks | "Three stages in civilisation: 'How shall we eat?' 'Why do we eat?' and 'What time shall we have lunch?" - Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy | | |
| zarks | Her: "I believe that there's somebody who watches over us all" Him: "Yes. Unfortunately it's the government." Woody Alan | | |
| Star-Dreamer | Make your choice, adventurous stranger. Strike the bell and bide the danger... or wonder 'til it drives you mad, what would have followed if you had! ~C.S. Lewis, "The Magician's Nephew"~ | | |
| Star-Dreamer | The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! | | |
| MattJ | The past is already written, the future is not in print, and right now I strive to truly be alive, to keep my eyes open, to keep my pen moving and to remind my editor and critics that they will get a chance at me in the end. | | |
| Dr. Arles North | The cruelist lies are often told in silence. RLS | | |
| ebm | Do what you love and the necessary resourses will follow - stale fortune cookie | | |
| TraciG | I have brains. I can hear them sloshing around when I move my head real fast. ~ Me | | |
| anointed | Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. The Bible | | |
| anointed | Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; The Bible | | |
| anointed | My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. The Bible | | |
| kingac | "Sometimes if I shout, it's not what's intended; These words just come out, with no gripes to bear." - "The Promise" by When in Rome | | |
| kingac | "Give me my freedom for as long as I be. All I ask of living is to have no chains on me." - from "And When I Die" by Laura Nyro | | |
| Ladywolf | "Let us read and let us dance; two amusements that will never do any harm to the world." ~ Voltaire | | |
| Ladywolf | "Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush." ~ Ashleigh Brilliant | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "If you let someone control you, then life means nothing." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "The best set is a dank set." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "The early bird may get the worm, but the second gets to sleep in." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "When you write, don't be you - be crazy, like me." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "People who don't write say they understand our excitement, our pride, and our enthusiasm as writers. Sorry, folks, but you must live it to understand it. Live, breath, and excel in writing - you can be anything you want to be." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "Give me liberty instead of death. For writing of libterty means writing of the millions of deaths, and the millions in woe." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "My better is better than you better." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "When I type, sometimes something I think comes out as something amazingly ignorant - then again, it's sometimes better than what I thought. I shouldn't be so ignorant in my thoughts, should I?" - MuttWriter26 | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "For thou hath run out of qoutes, and the city weeps, and the citizen's bleed, and the hearts cease to beat." - MuttWrite26 | | |
| Ladywolf | "Distressing as it might be to encounter an idiot, it is infinitely more so to be one." ~ Moi-même | | |
| Ladywolf | "Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so." ~ Bertrand Russell | | |
| lawnman4hire2000 | He's a walking adversment to birth control | | |
| DickCheney | It may be true that my desk here is really "nothing but" a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine. -Edward Abbey | | |
| Sarah Jane | "Sometimes in order to save what we love we have to risk losing it." -Doctor Tanizaki | | |
| J.M.E. | "Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it." - Anne of Green Gables - L.M.Mongomery | | |
| Sarah Jane | "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -Groucho Marx | | |
| Sarah Jane | "If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." -Albert Einstein | | |
| Sarah Jane | "The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong but that's the way to bet." -D. Runyon | | |
| Sarah Jane | "Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so." -Lord Chesterfield | | |
| Sarah Jane | "The wishbone will never replace the backbone." -Will Henry | | |
| Sarah Jane | "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -Theodore Roosevelt | | |
| Sarah Jane | "Quality is never an accident: it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution: it represents the wise choice of many alternatives." -David Benzel | | |
| Sarah Jane | "The journey is more exciting and satisfying than the end." -Cervantes | | |
| Sarah Jane | "The truth is more important than the facts." -Frank Lloyd Wright | | |
| Sarah Jane | "In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it." -Ivan Bloch | | |
| Sarah Jane | "Problems are obviously there to be solved." -Johan Cruyff | | |
| Sarah Jane | "If you can't accept losing, you can't win." -Vince Lambardi | | |
| Sarah Jane | "Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you" -Frank Tyger | | |
| Sarah Jane | "It's not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves." -Sir Edmund Hillary | | |
| Sarah Jane | "When you want something, all the universe conspires In helping you to achieve it." -Paulo Coelho | | |
| Sarah Jane | "You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it." -Robert Anthony | | |
| Sarah Jane | "I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." -Michael Jordan | | |
| Sarah Jane | "People do not lack strength; they lack will." -Victor Hugo | | |
| Sarah Jane | "Pain is only weakness leaving the body." -anonymous | | |
| Sarah Jane | "Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is." -Zig Ziglar | | |
| Sarah Jane | "All it takes is all you got." -Marc Davis | | |
| Sarah Jane | "Everything is practice." -Pele | | |
| Sarah Jane | "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt | | |
| Sarah Jane | "Clear your mind of can't." -Samuel Johnson | | |
| Arwen9 | How can I think outside the box if they won't even let me out of it? --unknown | | |
| jpenstroke | "When I write I find elbow room for my soul." - Jane Penland Hoover | | |
| Laural | Do or do not, there is no try. Yoda in Star Wars. | | |
| Laural | "If you can't change your life, change your attitude." Amy Tan | | |
| GeekDaddy | That's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh, I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh | | |
| Ladywolf | "Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them." ~ La Rochefoucald | | |
| Ladywolf | "Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them." ~ Charles Caleb Colton | | |
| Ladywolf | "Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good." ~ Samuel Johnson | | |
| Ladywolf | "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." ~ T. S. Eliot | | |
| Nocdar | Ther is something distrubing about a misspeeled quote in a writter's farum ~ Nod Nocdar | | |
| jackitsu | "If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have the nerve to be gay, go into the arts." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | | |
| DickCheney | "There was a time men loved ideas; now they get by with slogans" -Edward Abbey | | |
| DickCheney | "Anyone who takes this book seriously will be shot. Anyone who does not take it seriously will be buried alive by a Mitsubishi bulldozer." -Edward Abbey | | |
| Exit Row Aisle | "You may not want to take its picture, but you really want to eat it." - Nigella Lawson | | |
| raisintoast | I tend to oscillate between thinking I'm a towering genius and the worst writer in the history of the world, all in the space of about three hours. The only thing that defeats this vicious cycle is to write. - Kevin Baker | | |
| Sarah Jane | "If you've already started something, why not finish?" -Sarah Jane | | |
| Ladywolf | "Variety's the very spice of life." ~ William Cowper | | |
| spring4321 | Good writing rises to the top. It's not catchy, it doesn't sound good in a Nike commercial or on a lower back tattoo, but that is what I believe. - Kevin Alexander | | |
| Sarah Jane | "Nothing is set in stone, you have to make the right choices." Lewis Robinson (I revised the quote a bit from the movie) | | |
| Arwen9 | All my life has been an interest in stories, forever and ever and ever. —E. Annie Proulx | | |
| Susan | Fiction is the truth inside the lie- Stephen King | | |
| Susan | He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? - Stephen King | | |
| Susan | Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved- Helen Keller | | |
| suzyparish | I believe everyone has divine sparks of talent in them. It just takes courage to find them and then even more courage to bring them to light.Suzy Parish | | |
| jrtomlin | Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was trying to stab. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to a writer--and if so, why? - Bennett Cerf | | |
| susanbellnc | Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. -G. K. Chesterton | | |
| jrtomlin | A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.--Thomas Mann | | |
| teradactyl | I read these quotes and am truly amazed at so many different, but awesome opinions. | | |
| AtmosphericFunk | "Life is like a chocolate chip cookie...you get to the end too quickly, and have absolutely no idea what happened to all the chocolate chips." | | |
| Sarah Jane | "If living is supposed to be good, then why are we so evil?" -anonymous | | |
| amuseingmarylee | "When used properly both the Bible and the telephone book will put you in touch with the right people." by Mary Lee Taylor | | |
| Truthfully | Blessed are those who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.--Unknown | | |
| Sarah Jane | "If we can do anything, then what's holding us back?" -Sarah Jane | | |
| PenDragon9 | Don't be dismayed by goodbyes. A farewell is neccessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. -Richard David Bach | | |
| popovic | Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. -- WB Yeats | | |
| Sarah Jane | "A writer isn't a writer without a pen just as a word can't be a word without a vowel." -Sarah Jane | | |
| NickLinsky | "He who takes his dogs out hunting wolf would do well to remember with whom the dogs are more closely akin." - from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | | |
| AAAtchison | "Writing is a humongous challenge, and afterwards, the universe will explode for your pleasure." -Anonymous | | |
| AAAtchison | "Don't eat the yellow snow" -Smart Guy | | |
| AAAtchison | "Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted." -John Lennon | | |
| Johnnyrussell | There are billions and billions of other roads, but few that span as long as the road of life. The road we take dictates our fate | | |
| Kirby | "I don't give a damn about the Joneses." -- Clara B. Chrisman | | |
| Heidi | "Old people are just young people who have been around awhile." -Heidi | | |
| pegs | "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." - Mark Twain | | |
| TraciG | Share a trouble and it halves; share a joy and it doubles. | | |
| JTLake | "The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it." - Salman Rushdie | | |
| gmkenney | Writing is a lot like sculpture; you have to cut until something brilliant emerges: “I saw the angel in the marble and I just chiseled until I set him free.” - Michaelangelo Buonarroti | | |
| Timeless | "Legally Drunk ... Well, if it's legal, what's the problem?! Hey, officer, leave my friend alone! He's LEGALLY DRUNK!" -- George Carlin (paraphrased) | | |
| leikec | Inscription on a tombstone in Key West, Florida - "I told you I was sick". | | |
| leikec | Random quote - "If I could read your writing, I'd be able to figure out why you're such an [idiot]..." | | |
| A Traveler | "by me kings reign, and rulers decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, all how judge rightly." -- Wisdom, Proverbs 8:16-17 | | |
| The_Penciled_One | "Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground is the heart of men."-Fyodor Dostoyevsky | | |
| The_Penciled_One | "Character is higher then intellect...A great soul will be strong to live, as well as think." - Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| weavinwords | 'We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.' -Maya Angelou | | |
| weavinwords | 'Before you point your finger at someone just remember, 3 fingers are pointing back at you' | | |
| weavinwords | On forgiveness: 'when you bury the hatchet, be sure not to leave the handle sticking out of the ground' | | |
| weavinwords | Don't compare yourself with others, be an individual. Chinese proverb says, 'If two the same, one not needed' | | |
| weavinwords | 'Nobody's perfect, that's why they put erasers on pencils.' | | |
| weavinwords | 'Materialism is: Buying things you don't need, with money you don't have, to impress people you don't know.' | | |
| aggie01 | "You get free cheese only in a mousetrap." | | |
| nhope | no one can resist an opening... | | |
| twkrahe | Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.~ Anais NIn | | |
| SonicMuse | "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." ~ Madame Marie Curie | | |
| Ladywolf | "No foundation. All the way down the line." ~ William Saroyan | | |
| Pete2646 | "Born to be Mild" ~ Bumper sticker seen on a family car | | |
| Querus Abuttu | “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.” Edgar Allen Poe | | |
| mrcholly | Everything works if you let it, Daddy by Travis J. Redfish | | |
| jimdens | You get what you give, so give love | | |
| MandaYeti | "So what? Now what?" - Boise Thomas | | |
| MandaYeti | "Live long, be happy, create something amazing"- me | | |
| wordboy | "I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." Isaac Asimov | | |
| jfm | And if there is anybody out there who feels crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye of the sun, hit those keys, it's the best madness going, the centuries need help, the species cry for light and gamble and laughter. Give it to them. There are enough words for all of us. - Charles Bukowski | | |
| kingac | "And it's hard not being a hero; and it's hard living in-between, here with the light on in the dark." - Jonatha Brooke - "Sleeping With the Lights On" | | |
| spring4321 | "Don't stop for grammar, spelling, or small animals in crosswalks - just get the first draft written and fix the problems later." Shayd | | |
| skywalker421 | The first draft of a manuscript should be completed in three months. Otherwise, it starts sounding foreign, like a public relations dispatch from the Romanian Embassy. -Stephen King, "On Writing" | | |
| Sarah Jane | "390904 I don't believe that." -Me | | |
| Ladywolf | "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| A Traveler | "Do you think that those with boring lives write? That they must create interesting worlds in order to keep them focused on living. Naw, that can’t be true." -Me | | |
| Sarah Jane | "And in the corner you'll find a chess set with 31 missing pieces, to bad that's life." -Arnold Rimmer (Red Dwarf) | | |
| Mustang Writer | Today will be yesterday come tomorrow. -Mustang Writer | | |
| Mustang Writer | "Yes. No, actually, no. Well, I guess we did." -Jason Dunn | | |
| ANF131211 | "Why do you write?" "Why do I write? Don't you want to be able to control things?" -ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "Why submerge yourself into a world of television, when you can travel in a world of words."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "You as a writer have power, power to talk about things only your characters would understand."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "Where will you be twenty years from now?" "Nowhere where you could come." "Why not?" "I'll be absorbed in a story. Surely, you could never enter that, for you neither read or write."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "When you write you must make your characters lifelike, in order for them to seem real enough to be one of your best friends...or one of your enemies."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "I think I know what I will become." "What?" "I think I will become a writer." "Why that?" "I am not looking for success, but you don't understand that my characters want to be printed on paper."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "You will always be a character in my book, as you will always be a real person...or thing to me."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "I did what you wanted." "You did." "So, why are you unhappy?" "I just...I didn't think you'd actually do it. You're the writer after all." "Yes, indeed I am. But you are the character. And what the character says, goes."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "You have no money. Why are you so happy?" "Why have money, when you have pen, paper, and unlimited ideas flowing through your head?"-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "The world is always changing. It's what you do with the changes that counts."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "I am a person. I am a writer. I am like the God of my story. I created the world."-ANF | | |
| Vance Lethurin | "The real world isn't always big enough, but it does seem to have an endless supply of pen and paper; and with that the world of a writer is infinite" -Vance Lethurin | | |
| ANF131211 | "Judging people puts an end in the not even begun friendship." -ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "Your dog is a dog. It doesn't understand what you're saying." "No, you're right. But she listens better than you do." -ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "What are those things on the side of your head used for? Decoration?" -DRF (AKA:MY MOM) | | |
| ANF131211 | "Why are you trying to go for a dream that can't be reached?" "Because I'd rather go for it than sit at home and wonder what would have happened if I had tried."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "Which would you rather do, love or hate someone?" "It depends. Which one will cause me more trouble?" "Hmm...can't tell you that...they both cause too much drama."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "Surrounding you are people. They're all people. So, why do we choose to treat each one differently?"-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "If you think something is true, you don't know it's true. So, don't act like it's true, when you only think you know it's true."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "Stop looking at me." "Fine...I'll stare at you then."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "You don't know I'm hurting, because you haven't been around to witness the hurt."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "We miss the important things in life. We don't realize they're so important until it's too late."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "Why are we so obsessed with winning? For if we never lose, we would never learn how to win."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "Expect the unexpected or you'll never see things coming."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "One day I thought up too many ideas, so I decided to write them down."-ANF | | |
| shetly2002 | Setting goals is great, how u plan to reach it? Is the most important | | |
| shetly2002 | Love is not a fight, it's something worth fighting for. | | |
| shetly2002 | Jesus is my home Boy. | | |
| epinpopo | "Honey starts with a B." Baldric, Blackadder, BBC-TV | | |
| epinpopo | "I want a doorbell that tells jokes. Ding-dong is passe'." -Lauren Greenlee | | |
| elliethemarvelous | "Ready Freddy?" "Let's go, Ted."...."Isn't it let's go, Joe?"..." Let's go, Ted." | | |
| elliethemarvelous | "Why did you do that?" "My character told me to." | | |
| elliethemarvelous | When you start hearing voices in your head, its supposed to mean you're crazy. when i hear voices in my head, it means its time to start writing | | |
| elliethemarvelous | "You make me feel like a superflous plasternomeresterator!" | | |
| elliethemarvelous | "I said please so now you have to" -AEM (aka my sis) | | |
| elliethemarvelous | Ich bin ein Berniner. (this actually means, I am a jelly-filled doughnut, not I am a Berliner. the translator made a tinsey mistake. he meant, Ich bin Berniner) | | |
| ANF131211 | "Why are you so worried about tomorrow? For when tomorrow does come, you will be worried about the next day, and when that day comes, you'll be worried about the day after that...you'd better stop worrying...or you'll eventually stress yourself out...great...now you'll worry about stressing yourself out..."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "You seem to be forgetting that I am the writer." "Yes...but you even said that what a character says goes..." "I can't believe it...my own character is using my quote against me."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "Yesterday it was just a thought. Today it was an idea. Tomorrow it will be a book."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "Why read or write? we don't do any of that in our world." "Oh really? What do you do in the morning?" "Check the weather, read the newspaper...fine you got me there, but that doesn't mean we do it all the time." "What do you do at work?" "I write down what needs to be..." "Exactly...what do you do after that?" "I usually pay the bills or check my email, see what's on TV..." "And what do all of those things have in common?" "I...oh..."-ANF | | |
| elliethemarvelous | "If i could fly,i would fly, but the real descision maker is the word 'if' in the beginning" | | |
| elliethemarvelous | "When i smile, it means the end of the world is coming." "you just smiled, though." "that means the world is nearing its end" "great. but why?" "What the character says, goes, remember?" "That's not my quote." "Too bad. its true." "Only were you live, little voice inside my head, only were you live..." | | |
| ANF131211 | "There are a lot of stupid people in this world, just hope your doctor isn't one of them."-JMF (AKA:MY DAD) | | |
| elliethemarvelous | "If i understand what you say, the 'what if' questions would already be answered" | | |
| ANF131211 | "I said before that what the character says goes, but the writer is the one to write it down, therefore they are the boss."-ANF | | |
| spring4321 | "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Dr. Martin Luther King. | | |
| spring4321 | "There are lies, damn lies, and then there is statistics." Mark Twain | | |
| spring4321 | "Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing at all." Helen Keller | | |
| elliethemarvelous | "scootle your bootle"-ETM (where i got this from, i dont know!) | | |
| teradactyl | " A poem... begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness....It finds the thought and the thought finds the words." - Robert Frost | | |
| elliethemarvelous | "I'm a forgetter, I forget." -AEM (aka my sister) | | |
| elliethemarvelous | "Time means nothing to me. It's just a word to me." Ellie Irving (in her thoughts) | | |
| ANF131211 | "When you're a writer, you need to have voice." "I have voice!" (said very loudly) "No, not that kind of voice."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "We haven't talked in years." "Why?" "Because we lost touch." "So you don't know where he lives?" "No. I know that." "Then, how can you have lost touch when you know where he lives?"-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "Swift as a bird and as ferocious as a tiger. Wind."-ANF | | |
| elliethemarvelous | "People never understand what i say when i tell them that i would be sorry for thiem if i wasn't" -RVM | | |
| Flick Montana | "If you look to the stars, you can see the beginning of time." - Carl Sagan | | |
| Flick Montana | "There's no such thing as stupid questions. Only stupid people." - Me | | |
| Ozymandius | "And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make." - The Beatles | | |
| elliethemarvelous | tall people intimidate me-Myself | | |
| elliethemarvelous | "If you yell, no one will hear you, but if you whisper...you will be heard."-I can't remeber | | |
| Sarah Jane | "The revenge is best served silently. And silent revenge is written." -Me | | |
| Sarah Jane | "Look I don't mean to torture you guys!" -Me talking to my characters | | |
| ANF131211 | "Friends are the people who get you through rough times. They are also the people that get you into rough times."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "See what happens when you keep your mouth shut? You may actually not be slapped in the face."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "What would life be without challenges? One challenge is waking up early, and we wouldn't even get out of bed if we had no challenges."-ANF | | |
| ravendrache | "I would if I could, but I can't so I wont." - Self | | |
| elliethemarvelous | "It isnh't pink...it's salmon." who else? ELLIE IRVING!!! | | |
| Mustang Writer | I don't want to just live my life; I want to mean something. ~From the song, "Turn It On" by Hawk Nelson | | |
| schrimsher1 | "The true man is that which exists under what is called man. If that being, which thus exists sheltered and secreted behind that illusion which we call the flesh, could be approached, more than one strange revelation would be made." The Toilers of the sea-Victor Hugo | | |
| schrimsher1 | The vulgar error is to mistake the outward usk for the living spirit-Victor Hugo | | |
| schrimsher1 | A stout heart may be ruined in fortune, but not in spirit- Victor Hugo | | |
| Sarah Jane | "Where you goin'?" "With luck forward." | | |
| ANF131211 | "People are change. People are what makes the world what it is. And we, people, have the power to change that."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "If we live our lives like there will be a tomorrow, we will not reach our goals. If we live our lives like it's the last day of the world, we will most likely succeed."-ANF | | |
| elliethemarvelous | I vote the most random song "Barbie Girl" | | |
| ANF131211 | "Weirdness isn't thrust upon you. You are either born weird or you aren't." "What about you?" "Oh...I'm a writer so I was born more odd than others."-ANF | | |
| elliethemarvelous | You have to learn to love others before you can truly learn to love yourself- me | | |
| elliethemarvelous | the only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits-my cousin | | |
| Sarah Jane | "It's my job to be weird, what else would you guys have to look forward to then?" -Me | | |
| ROSE x 15 | "To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself." - Anne Rice | | |
| Godim | Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feather | | |
| yawriter3 | Dumb people are always blissfully unaware of how dumb they really are...(drools) - Patrick Star | | |
| Lord Terpsichorean | Despite the limitations of words, nothing in this universe equals the timelessness of well written prose. | | |
| pencilandpaper | "When all else fails, read." -from mom, retired teacher | | |
| epinpopo | Each step has a voice-- Lauren Greenlee | | |
| pencilandpaper | The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it. --Joan Rivers | | |
| pencilandpaper | I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you. --Ann Richards, former governor of Texas | | |
| pencilandpaper | Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end. --Jerry Seinfeld | | |
| pencilandpaper | You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that. --Jay Leno | | |
| pencilandpaper | Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. --David Letterman | | |
| pencilandpaper | Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. --actor Mickey Rooney | | |
| pencilandpaper | I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. ~Richard Lewis | | |
| pencilandpaper | I've been rich and I’ve been poor -- and believe me, rich is better. ~Sophie Tucker | | |
| pencilandpaper | I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.~Henny Youngman, comedian | | |
| pencilandpaper | If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. ~Tallulah Bankhead, actress | | |
| pencilandpaper | If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ~Milton Berle | | |
| pencilandpaper | Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are. ~Kurt Cobain | | |
| pencilandpaper | I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not. ~Kurt Cobain | | |
| pencilandpaper | I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. --Bill Cosby, comedian | | |
| Sarah_Heartburn | We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. ~ Anais Nin | | |
| Sarah_Heartburn | Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ "Stranger In A Strange Land", Robert A. Heinlein | | |
| PSC | Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. -- Rita Mae Brown | | |
| PSC | How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? -- Paul Sweeney | | |
| PSC | We build too many walls and not enough bridges. -- Isaac Newton | | |
| PSC | If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2? -- George Carlin | | |
| MDPulaski | “It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.” - Andrew Jackson | | |
| pencilandpaper | “The road to success is always under construction” ~Lily Tomlin, comedian | | |
| pencilandpaper | “All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.”~Lily Tomlin, comedian | | |
| pencilandpaper | You may be a redneck if . . . you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.--Jeff Foxworthy, comedian | | |
| pencilandpaper | I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.--Jeff Foxworthy, comedian | | |
| pencilandpaper | If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.--Jeff Foxworthy, comedian | | |
| pencilandpaper | “I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.”~Gilda Radner, comedian | | |
| pencilandpaper | "I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships”~Gilda Radner, comedian | | |
| ANF131211 | "Rough spots are easy to fix. It's actually doing the fixing that takes guts."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "Maybe the right thing to do, isn't always the thing we want to do. But whether we like it or not, it'll effect us somehow."-ANF | | |
| dignatron | God=multiversal communication | | |
| elliethemarvelous | If I had a million dollars I'd buy you a green dress, but not a real green dress, That's cruel- the song "If I Had $1,000,000" by Barenaked Ladies | | |
| WIMLiFe | "Why is it that those who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?" - May Sarton | | |
| raymondstary | "It's better to have loved and lost than to have linoleum on your living room floor." Ex-girlfriend | | |
| Cavity Spackle | Shadow couldn’t exist without light, and what cast true light but the sun? What else could coax the flowers to grow, the flowers that were pale and colorless at night, but smelled of sweet honey and better times… -Anon | | |
| Cavity Spackle | "Just do it." -Nike | | |
| ANF131211 | "The only way you can win is if you keep fighting for what you want. If you give up, there is no way you can get what you want."-ANF | | |
| jpenstroke | "When I write I find elbow room for my soul." jane | | |
| aggie01 | "Hard work beats talent when talent won't work hard." - From a t-shirt I saw | | |
| looneywriter | Don't die with big dreams and good deeds wadded up in your pocket. - Life's Little Instruction Calendar | | |
| Ozymandius | "And at the beat of the city drum, see how your friends come in twos; or threes or more. For the sound of a busy place, is fine for a pretty face, who knows what a face is for." - Nick Drake, "At The Chime of a City Clock" | | |
| Lexi | "It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." -- Erma Bombeck | | |
| Lexi | "...there is a luxury in being quiet in the heart of chaos." -- Virginia Woolf | | |
| Lexi | "The time to write is when you don't have time for it." -- Lydia Sharp | | |
| Lexi | "Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you." -- John DePaola | | |
| Lexi | "I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest a while." -- Max Forrester Eastman | | |
| Lexi | "Love the little moments of life -- the good, the bad, and all the crazy in between." -- Lydia Sharp | | |
| hap1see | "If you never give up you can not be a failure".- me | | |
| cathy.robinson | "I write for the same reason I breathe...Because if I didn't, I would die."~Isaac Asimov | | |
| cathy.robinson | "It is never too late to be what you might have been."~ George Eliot | | |
| cathy.robinson | "I do believe I've lost my childhood."~Damon Young, age 6 | | |
| Star-Dreamer | Worlds built of earth and stone will crumble and will fall, but worlds built of pen and ink have the potential to live forever. (me) | | |
| paladin1 | "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? George Carlin | | |
| ANF131211 | "What's the use in trying if you're just going to give up?"-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "Reading or writing about fantasy worlds helps you escape from the death trap known as reality."-ANF | | |
| spurzem | Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes. | | |
| Arwen9 | "If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages." --Elaine Liner | | |
| Arwen9 | "Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish." --John Jakes | | |
| pegs | "Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -TS Eliot | | |
| pegs | "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. ---George Burns | | |
| pegs | "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." --Victor Borge | | |
| pegs | "I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshiing sound they make as they fly by." --Douglasd Adams, author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | | |
| BADS | "Trust in Allah, but tie down your camel." -- Islamic proverb | | |
| BADS | "Perfect is a place where the mass graves are well hidden" | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "Burn books? Why? So in Hell they have something to read?" - MuttWriter26 (on burning books) | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "Screw reading about real-life-situations. I get enough of that between the hours of 6 and 11." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "I used to think that my novel was in the process of sucking. Then I realized I was the one who sucked for thinking such suckish thoughts." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "Will being a famous author change me? Probably. Will it change what I love to do just for fun (writing)? Never." - MuttWriter26 =) | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "I used to read in my dark, comfortable room constantly. One day I woke up. Outside. My parent's haven't forced me to do anything since then." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "You may love to write stories and poems for others. Remember, though, you write constantly about your fate." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "Adding quotes is fun... until the quoting police show up." - MuttWriter26 | | |
| silentjackal | A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. — Shelby Foote | | |
| MuttWriter26 | "It's true when someone says that you never know what you had until you lost it. I'm sick of snow!" - MuttWriter26's family | | |
| geniuswaitress | "Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln | | |
| geniuswaitress | "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes." - Mark Twain | | |
| DickCheney | "All right, then, I'll go to hell." -- Huck Finn | | |
| TheProdigy2010 | If I didn't write, at this point I'd suffocate!" -TheProdigy2010 | | |
| elliethemarvelous | i do what i do because i do | | |
| TheilliterateWriter | “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” – Jonathan Swift | | |
| A Traveler | Imagination can run over any terrain and much faster than the truth could. -me | | |
| A Traveler | Theres a difference between fashionably late and out right tardiness. That difference is the outfit you come in wearing. | | |
| Arwen9 | Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It’s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors." --Rhys Alexander | | |
| AmberJTEG21 | "A writer's life is one of the paradoxes. You have to be interested in people yet be proficient in one of the lonliest jobs there is. You need inspiration and passion, yet you must also possess the self-discipline to trudge through writing four-hundred pages of a manuscript. In other words, you have to have a split personality and be slightly nuts." | | |
| A Traveler | "I'm afraid to touch my automatic transmissiom, because if i do then the magic will escape." - Thomas Ales | | |
| diyinok | Even on the road to success, you'll get run over if you just stand there. | | |
| diyinok | May you sit on the tack of success and rise rapidly. | | |
| ANF131211 | "The problem we have today is that we give everyone around us good advice...but what we need to do is follow it ourselves."-ANF | | |
| ChristinaKatz | I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~ Erica Jong | | |
| ChristinaKatz | Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all. ~ Helen Keller | | |
| faydiablo | "Killers, by and large, are whining losers. But, that doesn't make them any less dangerous." - Burn Notice | | |
| RambleDown | "I gave up writing when I was 10. Too dangerous." -Naked Lunch | | |
| j_joshi | "It's a mystery but a delightful mystery" ~ Carl Wilson | | |
| jackm | “You can’t have a light, without a dark to stick it in…” – Arlo Guthrie | | |
| scratch | "The wise learn from the mistakes of others, fools from their own" -Anonymous | | |
| Cuurmudgeon | "Five percent of the people think, ten percent of the people think they think and the other 85% would rather die than think." Attributed to Mark Twain | | |
| Cuurmudgeon | "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein | | |
| Cuurmudgeon | "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Anon | | |
| Bristol.Farraday | "Not only am I very intelligent, but I'm also very smart" - Lemony Snicket | | |
| Bristol.Farraday | "Just becaue you feel like saying it doesn't always mean it should be said." - R.E. Francis | | |
| ANF131211 | "I can't see your face, but I know who you are."-ANF | | |
| ANF131211 | "What's the diagnosis prognosis, Fertile Mertle?"-the movie JUNO | | |
| msprolific1 | "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've always imagined." - Henry David Thoreau | | |
| dgford | "If I've said it twice, I've said it too many times" : The Boss (dgford) | | |
| Warden34 | "The future you have today, may not be the future you have tomorrow."-- Chuck Palahniuk | | |
| A Traveler | Life's like a grindstone and you're the chisel. The more you come into contact with each other the sharper you are, but the less of you remains. -me | | |
| A Traveler | "Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value " - Murphy's Constant | | |
| trappedbymythoughts | If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison | | |
| ANF131211 | "Live your life like you want to live it, or it will let you down."-ANF | | |
| Ghostwriter71 | "Take care. Doesn't matter where you find it. Just take it!" - Phil Giunta | | |
| Ghostwriter71 | "Even if you're in the backseat of someone'e life, at least you're behind them all the way." - Phil Giunta | | |
| Ghostwriter71 | "When I was young, I wanted to travel the world and find myself. I never got the chance so now I have no idea where I am." - Phil Giunta | | |
| Arwen9 | "If there is something you really want to do--no matter how impossible it may seem--with enough hard work and perseverance, you can do it." --Dennis Walters | | |
| Classic Camp | "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." - Groucho Marx | | |
| Classic Camp | "I woke up early the day I died" - Edward D. Wood, Jr. | | |
| Classic Camp | "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt" - Mark Twain | | |
| Classic Camp | "It was the best of times, it was the Mirst of times" - Snoopy | | |
| Lexi | "I try to leave out the parts that people skip." -- Elmore Leonard | | |
| Lexi | "You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club." -- Jack London | | |
| Classic Camp | "Indecision may or may not be my problem" - Jimmy Buffett | | |
| tmso | What does a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life? - Albert Einstein | | |
| george etc | "When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it." - Edgar Watson Howe | | |
| george etc | "Southern trees bear strange fruit...blood on the leaves and blood at the root...black bodies swinging in the southern breeze...strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." - Billie Holliday | | |
| TraciB | "Goodby," said the fox. "Here is my secret; it is very simple. One only sees well with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery in Le Petit Prince | | |
| stick.figure | "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian" --Paul/Linda McCartney | | |
| Thibby | "When violet eyes get brighter, and heavy wings grow lighter, I'll taste the sky and feel alive again." - Adam Young | | |
| Ozymandius | "The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?" -- Bob Marley when asked why he was performing 2 days after gunmen shot him | | |
| Bristol.Farraday | All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. - Mark Twain | | |
| Bristol.Farraday | Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream. - Mark Twain | | |
| Bristol.Farraday | "There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." - Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith | | |
| Bristol.Farraday | "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." - E.L. Doctorow | | |
| Bristol.Farraday | "Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." - Gene Fowler | | |
| karencomer | "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” Jimi Hendrix | | |
| Blueocean | An overabundance of eloquent articulation of one's internal dialogue possesses the potential to render one's readers wandering aimlessly through the quagmire of non-diminutive phraseology. | | |
| jfm | “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”-- Ernest Hemingway | | |
| raymondstary | "Those who live by the sword die by those who live by the gun." | | |
| raymondstary | "I hate fathers and I never wanted to be one." Steve Zissou | | |
| raymondstary | "I'll kill a man in a fair fight. Or if I think he's going to start a fair fight. Or if he annoys me. Or if there's a girl. Or if I'm getting paid. Mostly if I'm getting paid." Jayne Cobb | | |
| kitty27 | Admit that you are totally mad. What writer isn't? | | |
| Ozymandius | "You make love, you break love, it's all the same when it's, when it's over." - Jimi Hendrix | | |
| Talis1 | The course of true love never did run smooth. Especially when dragons are involved. -- Jenn Lidster | | |
| Talis1 | It rarely takes more than a page to recognize that you're in the presence of someone who can write, but it only takes a sentence to know you're dealing with someone who can't. (By the way, here's a simple way to find out if you're a writer. If you disagree with that statement, you're not a writer. Because, you see, writers are also readers.) -- Josh Olson | | |
| tspann | "To be true, I must fully accept that at this moment, I can only be what I am ... no more, no less; however, with the inevitable passing of each moment of time, I will gradually, but surely change ... to become more or less, better or worse, stronger or weaker. My choice is the direction of change: it is mine alone. The only true competition is this rivalry with my changing self. It is the very basis of the grand eternal plan." C. Smith Sumner | | |
| pat roe | "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Frances Bacon, 1597 s | | |
| pat roe | "How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.-Henry David Thoreau | | |
| pat roe | " Sometimes I think it sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.-Gene Fowler, on his own written work. | | |
| kayfair | "What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt a hundred?" -Oliver Wendell Holmes | | |
| pencilandpaper | I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years. ~Samuel Goldwyn, movie maker | | |
| pencilandpaper | I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. ~Samuel Goldwyn, movie maker | | |
| pencilandpaper | A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. ~Samuel Goldwyn | | |
| pencilandpaper | I've never been a millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it. ~Dorothy Parker, humorist | | |
| pencilandpaper | Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. ~Dorothy Parker, humorist | | |
| pencilandpaper | I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. ~Dorothy Parker | | |
| LeanneGoGators | You better keep your ball rolling because no one else is going to roll it for you.-ME | | |
| raymondstary | "If wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak." Jayne Cobb | | |
| pencilandpaper | Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.~Edna Woolman Chase | | |
| hekstrom | It's never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot | | |
| pencilandpaper | This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. ~comedian George Burns | | |
| pencilandpaper | Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. ~David Frost, tv host | | |
| pencilandpaper | TV is chewing gum for the eyes. ~Frank Lloyd Wright | | |
| pencilandpaper | Television has raised writing to a new low. ~Samuel Goldwyn, movie producer | | |
| pencilandpaper | Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work. ~Gallagher, comedian | | |
| pencilandpaper | We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. ~Cato the Elder, ancient historian | | |
| pencilandpaper | The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. ~Will Rogers, humorist | | |
| pencilandpaper | Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb | | |
| pencilandpaper | No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue. ~Sir Phillip Sidney, poet | | |
| pencilandpaper | Food is an important part of a balanced diet. ~Fran Liebowitz | | |
| pencilandpaper | Food is our common ground, a universal experience. ~James Beard | | |
| pencilandpaper | Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. ~Alice May Brock | | |
| Classic Camp | I just finished my first book, now I'm going to read another one." - Rodney Dangerfield | | |
| ClericofAneron | Which means that Armageddon may not happen through fire, after all, but by being sucked into a void. Good times. -BrandiG | | |
| Im back acre1964 | I maybe a nutt,but those Screws will never get to me. Instead I have to find them. Be creative and get a grip on reality. By me | | |
| joelyle | love moves the heart; compassion moves the hands - ME | | |
| raymondstary | "Go to Hell." --Buddha | | |
| raymondstary | "I'm all out of bubblegum."--Nada | | |
