Scrivener Quotes

#1. Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's amazing how fluid the software makes the process. I genuinely think this is the biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.

Michael Marshall Smith

#2. Your employers evince great faith in your talents, Mr Ewing, to entrust you with business neccessitating such a long & arduous voyage. I replied that, yes, I was a senior enough notary to be entrusted with my present assignment, but a junior enough scrivener to be obligated to accept the same.

David Mitchell

#3. I've put down my scrivener's pen. These days i prefer not to.

Mike Noonan

#4. If you make a Star Wars reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - Bartleby, The Scrivener, probably not so much.

Adam Reed

#5. Gradually I slid into the persuasion that these troubles of mine touching the scrivener, had been all predestinated from eternity, and Bartleby was billeted upon me for some mysterious purpose of an all-wise Providence, which it was not for a mere mortal like me to fathom.

Herman Melville

#6. The truth is Fort Endeavor needs you." Confused, she shifted in her seat, darting a look at him. "I need you," he amended quietly. "Not just your services as scrivener. I need your goodness and gentleness and strength. Sometimes I think you're the only one I can trust, even above my own officers.

Laura Frantz

#7. I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade at all and so how can your rules fit me?

John Steinbeck

#8. Knowing it without understanding it is enough for one to be qualified a fool;
Understanding without relative adherence, masters one in foolishness.

Caleb Ricketts

#9. It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.

Joseph Joubert

#10. I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they want to be. I think ... you must care for others. That's the correct religion, I think.

Kirk Douglas

#11. Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

Amby Burfoot

#12. Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.

Zooey Deschanel

#13. " it's the Fiery Furnace."
They just looked at me as if I said "It's a puppy driving a tractor.

Brodi Ashton

#14. The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

Corliss Lamont

#15. The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Donald Trump

#16. Jesus is not just what true divinity looks like. He is also what true humanity looks like.

Glen Scrivener

#17. Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.

Fred Armisen

#18. When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance

Phil Harding

#19. I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

Tyler Farr

#20. Towns were the nursery of freedom.

Lord Acton

#21. Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.

Bill Joy

#22. Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

J.D. Salinger