Sieved Quotes

#1. A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory ... dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.

Rumer Godden

#2. To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence
words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.

Adrienne Rich

#3. The eye is always half-full.

Arthur Slade

#4. Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

Martin Firrell

#5. I don't have a problem rhyming "bar" with "car" - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel right.

Craig Finn

#6. Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress,

Hillary Clinton

#7. Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.

Spike Lee

#8. Learn to listen to subtle cues from your spirit instead of the barrage coming from your brain.

David Brazzeal

#9. I think it's better to have ideas.

Chris Rock