Embellishers Quotes

#1. Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.

Louis Menand

#2. I come from a long line of serial embellishers. Sometimes a good story's got a ghost in it; sometimes a panther chases my Uncle Bill and Fred Price home from a coon hunt.

Tony Earley

#3. I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground.

John Dewey

#4. People love to judge, get used to it and stop taking it personally.

Kathryn Budig

#5. The cave you fear to enter, goes the ancient proverb, holds the treasure you seek.

Marty Neumeier

#6. An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.

Uri Shulevitz

#7. Never fear being alone, because you never are.

Rod McKuen

#8. Steve Nicol never gives more than 120 per cent.

Kevin Keegan

#9. I made $3,000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash. That was a bad situation, because I bought ridiculous stuff. I bought a snake bite emergency kit. Then I said to my friends, "Don't even worry about snakes anymore". My friend stepped on a worm, and I said, "Lay down!"

Mitch Hedberg

#10. My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.

John Darnielle

#11. I flashed her a smile, but she didn't even look at me. So for brains and good judgment, I'd give her a three.

Bobby Bare

#12. What a glut of books! Who can read them?

Robert Burton

#13. There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

Tom Hanks

#14. Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Italo Calvino