Vykov Quotes

#1. Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry.

Alice Meynell

#2. This might be one of the few basements in Southern California, but it was clearly being used the way Juan's family used the garage.

Vernor Vinge

#3. I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does.

Otto Graham

#4. There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.

Jennifer Donnelly

#5. Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.

Aeschylus

#6. But, Erin. If you are trying to make a writing career for yourself, you will get rejected again and again and again. You must keep going. You must learn not to take no for an answer.

Jennifer Echols

#7. My father (Danny Thomas) used to tell me there are two kinds of people, the takers and the givers. 'The takers sometimes eat better,' he would say, 'but the givers always sleep better.'

Marlo Thomas

#8. Funny, isn't it, how quickly the future becomes the past.

Lauren Oliver

#9. You're not always right. You're often wrong. But at least you're looking at it as objectively as you can with as much experience as you can in the moment and saying, "Yeah, I think it's funny" or "No, I don't think it's funny yet."

Victor Levin

#10. he didn't feel as if dying would be the easy way out.

James Dashner

#11. Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

Jonathan Lethem