Writinglife Quotes

#1. But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.

Shauna Niequist

#2. Her makeup artist, Allan Snyder, recalled applying her makeup in the morning while she was still flat on her back in bed. "There was no other way," he said. "It would take her so long to get up in the morning, we had to start with the makeup before she was out of bed.

J. Randy Taraborrelli

#3. What has been done is little - scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us.

Agnes Mary Clerke

#4. It's nice to get off the couch, throw the clothes on, add a little make-up and go back to work, every once in a while.

Leonard Nimoy

#5. Without that thick skin and a clear vision of what it is you want to do, what it is you know you want to do, it can be really easy to get out here and get lost and swept away in whatever is going on. You really have to be steadfast in the mind for sure.

Stephen Boss

#6. If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.

Quentin Crisp

#7. It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.

Tim Bray

#8. The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

Larry Wall

#9. Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Elizabeth Kenny

#10. My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here ... God bless you all.

Walter Scott

#11. You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.

David Talbot

#12. The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful

Lee Bice-Matheson

#13. Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.

Paul Cezanne

#14. I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

Jacob Ruppert