Raymond Buckland Quotes

#1. I always plan the whole story in some detail, long before I start writing the actual thing. But even doing that, I find that there is plenty of room for spontaneity. Often the characters will lead the story off in a direction I hadn't originally intended!

Raymond Buckland

#2. I can sometimes gaze out of the window, at the sheep, ponies, grazing deer, and numerous woodland folk. It's a wonderful setting in which to write. I live on a dirt road, miles from anywhere, with no neighbors.

Raymond Buckland

#3. I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem more authentic.

Raymond Buckland

#4. A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination.

Marty Rubin

#5. My favorite game is Madden. That's it. I'm a Madden addict. I go at it.

Will.i.am

#6. Tolkien was such a brilliant writer in so many ways. He was truly an inspiration. Many people don't realize just how much he researched and how much he based his stories and characters on mythology of various types. He was very deep and in many ways a genius.

Raymond Buckland

#7. I enjoy creating and developing characters, as well as situations. But I have always had more ideas than I can ever put down on paper and fantasy allows me to include a lot of what I feel.

Raymond Buckland

#8. beheld, she sends again and again. So far

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. This is the fourth movie that I've done with this set of director-writers and I've learned to trust them at this point, because actually I started on Lego before they did.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#10. Religion is not what appears. It's what guides the appearance. There is an appearance of everything. But the appearance doesn't always have something behind it.

Raheel Farooq

#11. I want my clothes to make you smile!

Patrick Kelly

#12. The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

Gordon Bell

#13. That tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals ...

Marquis De Sade

#14. I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

Steve Albini

#15. I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

Raymond Buckland

#16. Are you ready to get BOLD?

Josh Miles

#17. When our body language is confident and open, other people respond in kind, unconsciously reinforcing not only their perception of us but also our perception of ourselves.

Amy Cuddy

#18. So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

Martin Yan

#19. Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn
Indicative that suns go down;
The notice to the startled grass
That darkness is about to pass.

Emily Dickinson

#20. Singing rose up from the convent, filling the woods with a peaceful echo that tried to penetrate her heart and smooth her features; but nothing could ease the pain of saying goodbye.

Kate Willis

#21. Don't see a thing working-see it finished!

Raymond Buckland

#22. We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

Maurice Merleau Ponty