Wroblewski Quotes

#1. The costume affects your posture, affects your walk, how you hold yourself, and how you breathe. The costumes make you deliver.

Richard Madden

#2. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it.

Allie Brosh

#3. When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.

David Wroblewski

#4. Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!

Walel Watson

#5. Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another.

Voltaire

#6. Say 'Ah.'"
A-H-H-H-H, he fingerspelled.
Doctor Frost glanced at his mother.
"He just said 'ah' for you," she said weakly, and smiling.
"Okay, sense of humor intact," the doctor said. "Try anyway.

David Wroblewski

#7. With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

Ravi Zacharias

#8. I can pretend to be brave, but I'm not

Veronica Roth

#9. Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter.
Anything can happen, though.
Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.

David Wroblewski

#10. Do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?

David Wroblewski

#11. It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.

David Wroblewski

#12. In that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light ...

David Wroblewski

#13. The cookie is the critical part. It's a word I created for sex and you've got to give a man all three things. If you miss one out, he is going to find it somewhere else.

Steve Harvey

#14. It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.

David Wroblewski

#15. What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because they were mine!" said Ford, crossly. I think we have different value systems." Well mine's better.

Douglas Adams

#16. In her life, she'd been nourished and sustained by certain things, him being one of them, Trudy another, and Edgar, the third and most important, but it was really the three of them together, intersecting in her, for each of them powered her heart in a different way.

David Wroblewski

#17. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents - the rest you let float by.

David Wroblewski

#18. It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out.

David Wroblewski

#19. Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.

David Wroblewski

#20. When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within. Almondine from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

David Wroblewski

#21. Dream big! If you cannot imagine it, how can you achieve it?

Gretchen E. Schultek

#22. You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow.

David Wroblewski

#23. You can fight it or you accept it. The only difference is, if you accept it, you can get to do other things. If you fight it, you're stuck in the same spot forever

David Wroblewski

#24. And from the look on his face I could see he was one of the lucky ones, one of those people who like doing what they're good at. That's rare. When you see that in a person, you can't miss it.

David Wroblewski

#25. Others dreamed of finding a person in the world whose soul was made in their mirror image, but Almondine and Edgar had been conceived nearly together, grown up together, and however strange it might be, she was his other. Much could be endured for that.

David Wroblewski

#26. Your time is precious so this book is short and to the point.

Luke Wroblewski

#27. I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.

Bob Hope

#28. The strangest kind of curse had been laid upon him: knowledge without hope of evidence.

David Wroblewski

#29. Good general theory does not search for the maximum generality, but for the right generality.

Saunders Mac Lane

#30. I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career in software development. Which, by the way, is a very creative field. I equate it more to kinetic sculpture than anything else, as an activity.

David Wroblewski

#31. I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.

Arjuna Ardagh