Reiterative Quotes

#1. I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.

Leni Zumas

#2. The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

Maureen Dowd

#3. You'll know what kind of bird I am when I fly over you.

Tommy Newsom

#4. The best way to be, is to do.

Wynton Marsalis

#5. That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

John Green

#6. The receiver has to expend energy to measure the electromagnetic waves in the vacuum disturbed by the long-gone photon.

Anonymous

#7. You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.

Katherine Ellison

#8. I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on.
-Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

Oliver Harris

#9. Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.

Allan Lokos

#10. If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.

J.G. Ballard

#11. He cold, he dope, he might sell coke He always in the air but he never fly coach

Nicki Minaj

#12. Among the things he passed on to me were the belief that all men and women, regardless of their color or religion, are created equal and that individuals determine their own destiny; that is, it's largely their own ambition and hard work that determine their fate in life.

Ronald Reagan

#13. I have a uniquely German capacity to vacillate between sentimentality and coldness.

Tina Fey

#14. and turned into Bartholomew Close; and now I became aware that other people were waiting about for Mr. Jaggers, as well as I. There were two men of secret appearance lounging in Bartholomew Close, and thoughtfully fitting their feet into the cracks of the pavement as they

Charles Dickens

#15. To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

Ursula K. Le Guin