Gobbed Smacked Quotes

#1. I knew that it wouldn't last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.

Sarah Dessen

#2. For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#4. My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark.

John Mackey

#5. A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. I've had some interesting stuff happen to me - so why doesn't anyone ask me?

Amanda Marshall

#7. I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.

Craig Newmark

#8. My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

Seth Godin

#9. As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.

Charlie Jane Anders

#10. Call me Sunshine again, and I will murder you, cocksucker.

Katja Millay

#11. Perhaps he had been looking for that branching point in his life where he had stepped down the wrong path. He

Brandon Sanderson

#12. A short life and a merry one at that!

Bartholomew Roberts

#13. Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child.
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Marilyn Van Derbur

#14. Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Ayn Rand