W I T Margaret Edson Quotes

#1. I think good art does come from a dark place.

Rick Springfield

#2. She's so dark, so harsh, so wounded. Her prickly exterior would keep most everyone away.
And yet all I want to do is get closer.

K.A. Tucker

#3. My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

Margaret Edson

#4. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. - Nick

Rachel Cohn

#5. Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.

Margaret Edson

#6. It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time ... when I knew words would be my life's work

Margaret Edson

#7. When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.

Bernie Mac

#8. It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die at the end.

Margaret Edson

#9. Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

Indira Gandhi

#11. An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. You cannot imagine how time ... can be ... so still. It hangs. It weighs. And yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly, and yet it is so scarce.

Margaret Edson

#13. The attention was flattering. For the first five minutes. Now I know how poems feel.

Margaret Edson

#14. How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

Carson McCullers

#15. The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Lao-Tzu

#16. His voice was hot-wired to my pussy. I

Kresley Cole

#17. You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Len Wein

#18. What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. Sam had a skill that often let him take what he needed. But you couldn't do that with love. It had to be given. Shared.

Libba Bray

#20. Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#21. I don't choose stay in the state of sadness, any more than I would choose to stay in a room with the smoke alarm going off.

Gloria Jones