Formulative Loop Quotes

#1. Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Centcom, is probably the most decorated officer of his generation.

David Ignatius

#2. Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.

John Scalzi

#4. Jesus, would you look at him. Hair too long and too blond. Eyes too sexy and too blue. Body too buff, ego in danger of liftoff. Standing there in his tight fitted jeans, painted-on T-shirt, and snakeskin boots, he looked like God's guilty gift. Trouble was, he knew it.

Cindy Gerard

#5. As your love grows, you will find that your attachment to this world will begin to fall away.

Frederick Lenz

#6. I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.

Petra Nemcova

#7. What stops most people in their tracks. It's not the dreaming, we all have dreams. It's not the visioning process. It's usually the hard part of the equation. The part where we need to create action.

Tony Curl

#8. It's not the power of the curse, it is the power you give the curse.

Marilyn Kaye

#9. I feel that I am a good actor.

Burt Lancaster

#10. You ask me why I do not write something ... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

Florence Nightingale

#11. Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

Mignon McLaughlin