Priming The Pump Quotes

#1. You can only write regularly if you're willing to write badly. You can't write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well.

Jennifer Egan

#2. When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Bill Gates

#3. Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.

Elizabeth I

#4. Diana? Isn't she the goddess who hated men?'
He considered. 'I think of her as the goddess who tempted men by bathing outdoors, and turned them into animal life if they succumbed to the lure of bare flesh.

Eloisa James

#5. The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought.

Dan Quayle

#6. Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.

Gwen Stefani

#7. I wish I had fallen in love with somebody a little more handsome, of course. But I didn't. I fell in love wit you.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Horror and doubt distract
His troubled thoughts and from the bottom stir
The Hell within him, for within him Hell
He brings and round about him, nor from Hell
One step no more than from himself can fly
By change of place.

John Milton

#9. Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

Dorothy Thompson

#10. To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

Robert Breault

#11. But when a Saudi owned media company is prepared to both publicly praise the words of Benjamin Netanyahu tells you just how bad a nuclear deal between the United States and Iran would be.

Anonymous

#12. All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

W. H. Auden