Hesitent Quotes

#1. Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system. - Author: Stuart Stevens

#2. Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming? ... - Author: Eudora Welty

#3. There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure. - Author: Joanna Scott

#4. When you don't know what to do with yourself, do something for someone else. - Author: Lilian Jackson Braun

#5. I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career. - Author: Laura Lippman

#6. I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas. - Author: Woody Allen

#7. Remember, we without our roots and branches cannot be saved. - Author: Quentin L. Cook

#8. It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes
Present the object, but the Mind descries.
We see nothing till we truly understand it. - Author: John Constable

#9. There are only a few absolute truths in finances, like the fact that if you spend less than you make and have no debt, you're creating wealth. Another is that the housing market is cyclical. - Author: Celso Cukierkorn

#10. Perhaps the funniest example is that of the Rev. Milton Barfoot, who said to Dan's brother, in apparently honest bafflement, "But, isn't Dan afraid of hell?" No, Reverend, Dan doesn't believe in hell anymore, that's one of the things about being an atheist, you see. - Author: Dan Barker