Sunday, September 7, 2008

Quotes



"The Book of the Samurai notes, "Nothing great was ever accomplished through common sense. One must become insane and desperate first..."

"Herb is the healing of a nation, Alcohol is the destruction" - Bob Marley

"Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond..."

"Writers write to taste life twice" – Anais Nin

"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? Walt Whitman"

"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little." – Tom Stoppard

"I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive." – Philip Roth

"Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed." – P.G. Wodehouse

"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil." – Truman Capote

"The pen is the tongue of the mind." – Miguel de Cervantes

"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

"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work." – Pearl S. Buck

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