Writing Philosopy Quotes

#1. Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

Jane Bryant Quinn

#2. I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing documentary called Many Rivers to Cross - really, his whole writings; he's such a wealth of knowledge.

Jurnee Smollett

#3. Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Sivananda

#4. No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.

William Feather

#5. I don't know what he means, but there's something not clean about a man who sneers at everything.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#6. Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#7. When I got home I peered down at the lobster to see how he was doing. The inner plastic bag was sucked tight around him and clouded up. It looked like something out of an eighties made-for-TV movie, with some washed-up actress taking too many pills and trying to off herself with a Macy's bag.

Julie Powell

#8. Hey, you know who I feel bad for? Arab-Americans who truly want to get into crop dusting.

Brian Regan

#9. We got to the moon.

Rusty Schweickart

#10. The inner side of every cloud is bright and shining. So I turn my clouds about, and always wear them inside-out, to show the lining...

Unknown

#11. Eazy, Dre, Cube. Conceptualizer, musicalizer, lyricizer. Father, son, and holy ghost. The trinity behind N.W.A.

Jerry Heller