Jimboyedades Quotes

#1. ... part of the grief was that each member of the family was mourning his own mortality.

Alan Lightman

#2. The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the writer to the reader, and the power of its offering was the measure of its excellence. Outside of that, there were no rules.

John Steinbeck

#3. Patients who spend fifteen minutes every day writing an account of their daily troubles feel indeed better about what has befallen them. You

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified.

James Galway

#5. Empty knight, Harry! Morgan? Morgan? What's wrong with your head?" Thomas shrugged.
"I don't think he did it."
Morgan wouldn't cross the street to piss on you if you were on fire!" Thomas growled, "He's finally getting his comeuppance. Why should you lift a finger?

Jim Butcher

#6. Below the roads run the surveyors' lines which squared off the wilderness, and not only made it ready for sale but constructed a shape for county and state government.

Andro Linklater

#7. In a digitally connected world a byte of data can boost or bite your brand

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#8. Valda said that if you change your residence every six months you can legally free your children from compulsory education.

John Cage

#9. Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

Virginia Woolf

#10. Writing is the act of discovery.

Natalie Goldberg

#11. If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.

Jonathan Haidt

#12. Seniors vote, and that is why we have, you know, Medicare since the 1960s for seniors, and we didn't have a national healthcare program for children, even though it's a lot more cost-effective to deal with children than with seniors.

Nicholas Kristof