Djebbari Youssef Quotes

#1. He was more p***ed off by us playing a game of who could think up the worst nickname for him."
"Let me guess, you won?"
"It was Boy Scout, actually. I mean, come on. Even I couldn't top Chubby Chubby Choo Choo.

Alexandra Bracken

#2. That was the problem with Alison Fischer: you never knew which part of her to look at. He looked at her face

Nam Le

#3. Just because I like sushi, doesn't mean I can make sushi. I've come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice correct. It's a discipline that takes years and years and years. So, I leave that to the experts.

Anthony Bourdain

#4. Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

Robert Breault

#5. Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.

Joan Didion

#6. Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

Wm. Paul Young

#7. The poet Li Qing-jao knew the pain of regretting words that have already fallen from our lips and can never be called back. But she was wise enough to remember that even though those words are gone, there are still new words waiting to be said, like the pear blossoms.

Anonymous

#8. God knows you very well; He is not indifferent to your destiny

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Once a man has found himself there is nothing in this world that he can lose. And once he has understood the humanity in himself, he will understand all human beings.

Stefan Zweig

#10. Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.

Luciano Vincenzoni

#11. Show, don't tell, is a mantra repeated by tutors of creative writing courses the world over. As advice for amateurs, it is sound and helps avoid character profiling, unactivated scenes, and broken narrative frames.

Sarah Hall