Scribing Block Quotes

#1. I'm mesmerized by the way his fingers move confidently along her skin, as though her body is his to reat and touch and tend to. She was mine before she was yours: The words are there, unexpectedly, surging from my throat to my tongue. I swallow them back.

Lauren Oliver

#2. How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!

Jean Ingelow

#3. And there it is, against all hope, like the sun peeking out from behind the clouds. The smallest hint of a smile.

Amie Kaufman

#4. Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.

Ray Bradbury

#5. Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.

Laraine Day

#6. Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

George Haven Putnam

#7. I see very small movies being financed by crowdfunding. If you're a well-known actor or celebrity of some sort, you can probably raise between one and two million. I don't have that kind of cult [following].

John Sayles

#8. According to the Buddha, life is available only in the here and now, the present moment. He said, "The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment." If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#9. It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

Theodore White

#10. He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.

Jane Badler