Singeing Scorching Quotes

#1. A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

Honore De Balzac

#2. Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.

Francis Quarles

#3. Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.

Marvin Gaye

#4. If the plural of "octopus" is "octopi" then why isn't the plural of "rabbit" "rabbi"? Is it just because "octopuses" is too much fun to say? *

Jenny Lawson

#5. broke a few speed laws, but if a cop doesn't see you, is it really illegal? That is the million-dollar question.

Alycia Taylor

#6. Historians evaluating George W. Bush's first term will focus on foreign policy and, most of all, 9/11. I think they will criticize him for his early reaction, for not returning at once to Washington, D.C.

Robert Dallek

#7. It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.

Alice Oswald

#8. The apparent objectivity of written words explains why people tend to believe what they read more than what they hear

Charles Eisenstein

#9. I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

Uma Thurman

#10. The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Don DeLillo

#11. Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

William Strunk Jr.

#12. Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Helen Clark

#13. He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow. He put a spell on it so that three separate men could each have three wishes from it.

W.W. Jacobs

#14. If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

Larry Wall

#15. Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise.

Philip Jose Farmer