Pullis Speedwriting Quotes

#1. Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

Richard Whately

#2. words are but pictures of our thoughts

John Dryden

#3. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#4. England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.

William S. Burroughs

#5. It as non-existent (and not named).

Lao-Tzu

#6. I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

Janelle Monae

#7. Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.

Lemony Snicket

#8. Some people simply want company.

Patricia Cornwell

#9. I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.

Jeff Minter

#10. We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

Yo-Yo Ma

#11. I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better.

Halle Berry

#12. When does relaxing turn into living? How can you call it relaxing when that is all you are doing?

S.A. Tawks

#13. The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.

Confucius