Eppes Hall Quotes

#1. When you cling to something from the past, your hands cannot be open to receive the gifts of the future.

Kate McGahan

#2. Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.

Haruki Murakami

#3. First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance an idea, to reform it ... Revision is one of the true pleasures of writing.

Bernard Malamud

#4. The Latin root of decide means "to cut off all possibility." So a person who actually made a true decision to accomplish something would have no alternative but to do what they decided.

Diamond Dallas Page

#5. I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.

Katie Leung

#6. There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

George Sarton

#7. Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.

B. Alan Wallace

#8. Pay attention even to life's trifles.

Miyamoto Musashi

#9. She was after all the kind of woman who would make a man easily uproot his life, the kind who, because she did not expect or ask for certainty, made a certain kind of sureness become possible.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#10. The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.

Andre Breton

#12. I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley's Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love you queerly and no demon is bigger than this!

Grady Hendrix

#13. I rarely draw myself, in general, and if I do, I tend to do little cute manga-esque, almost bite-sized drawings of myself.

Jim Lee

#14. I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

David Remnick