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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b93e238 | Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 58290b7 | Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| e4bde8a | Every human heartbeat is a universe of possibilities. | philosophy-of-life | Gregory David Roberts | |
| ec65c3f | a good process-centric message immediately "closes the loop" with respect to the project at hand. When a project is initiated by an e-mail that you send or receive, it squats in your mental landscape--becoming something that's "on your plate" in the sense that it has been brought to your attention and eventually needs to be addressed. This method closes this open loop as soon as it forms." | Cal Newport | ||
| 34577f2 | The only moments I have when I play that are worth anything to me are when I can blissfully ignore the people I am supposed to be entertaining. No me; no silly public to amuse; only the heart and the soul, the world, the birds, storms, dreams, sadness, heavenly serenity. Then I am an artist worthy of the name . . . . Until it happens, or if it doesn't happen, I am miserable. | Jonathan Cott | ||
| af90783 | she also thought it would be helpful to send Bernstein a copy of a book of conversations I had done with the pianist Glenn Gould, who, it turned out, was one of Bernstein's musical heroes, as well as a close and adored friend. It was a long wait, but at last, in September of 1989, Maggie telephoned to give me the good news that I had passed Harry Kraut's audition, that Bernstein had read my book, and that he had not only agreed to give me a.. | Jonathan Cott | ||
| 898b141 | In 1945, the producer Hal Wallis of Paramount Pictures seriously discussed the idea of making a "biopic" in which Bernstein would have played Tchaikovsky and Greta Garbo would have played Baroness von Meck, the composer's patroness.)" | Jonathan Cott | ||
| a16b19c | WOW!" A GALVANIZED Igor Stravinsky reportedly exclaimed after listening to Leonard Bernstein's astonishing recording of The Rite of Spring--a still-unsurpassed performance that Columbia Records captured more than fifty years ago in a single inspired and electrically charged recording session on January 20, 1958, in New York City." | Jonathan Cott | ||
| cb4e806 | Sometimes a worrier worried for no reason. Sometimes, if there really was nothing at all to feel bad about, a worrier would worry about worrying. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| e139146 | Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 12f5f9a | The first true love is always the last one. | Andrzej Majewski | ||
| 059b51e | You know, I've always wanted a child. And now I think I'll have one... on toast!" - Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus (1993), Walt Disney Pictures" | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 4e4da77 | To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 78e7ffe | I didn't "teach" Ron Hansen or Stephen Wright or T. Coraghessan Boyle or Susan Taylor Chehak or Allan Gurganus or Gail Harper or Kent Haruf or Robert Chibka or Douglas Unger how to write, but I hope I may have encouraged them and saved them a little time. I did nothing more for them than Kurt Vonnegut did for me, but in my case Mr. Vonnegut--and Mr. Yount and Mr. Williams--did quite a lot. I'm talking about technical blunders, the perpetrat.. | John Irving | ||
| db6917a | even adults never truly lost their naivety of what the world's underbelly was really like. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 8579d61 | You're all looking at me like I farted," he said." | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| f15568b | The seals I told you about in the book. They were forged from iron. God created a substance toxic to anything not of earth and used it to make the seals. He also placed iron in the blood of man to help prevent evil from inhabiting us. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 92a451c | This isn't just a news of the week event. This is it--the big summer blockbuster, end of the world, fight for survival type of gig. You | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 92dceb9 | A book was to be held and enjoyed, breathed in like a natural, beautiful thing. It was a flower to be inhaled by the mind. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| bcff990 | She shrugged. "I think writers should look out for one another. We have more power together than as individuals." | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 8bc8864 | What people do tomorrow is a product of what they do today. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| b6aeb06 | Blake's therapist once told him people were like buckets and stress like drops of water. Too many drops in the bucket would make it overflow, and that was when | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 5e95c72 | and if that means I'm destined for hell, then I just hope they have weekly AA meetings. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 38af10d | Kids were easily screwed up if you weren't careful. It was a parent's job to steer them through dark situations and back towards the light. The very essence of parenthood was being a guide and mentor, using hindsight to help naive children prevail as better adults than they had been. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 1b45c8a | People needed to overthrow governments and take control of their own destinies. The rest of the world should stand back and let them. The Arab Spring movement was the Middle East's first step towards positive change. Worst thing to do now would be to try and manipulate things from Washington, London, and Brussels. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 8e78959 | Blake's therapist once told him people were like buckets and stress like drops of water. Too many drops in the bucket would make it overflow, and that was when people panicked. Anxious souls like Blake had smaller buckets than people who coped with stress well. The | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 0281f28 | The truth has a way of evolving, Mina. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| b10a98d | If you're going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill" | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| e48e4bc | I wanted to see for myself how much of a man you are. You certainly wear your scars well. If you cut your hair short, I wouldn't even know you lacked a cock. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 75001be | You let things slide once and you gave the go ahead to be undermined at every turn. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 620c1de | Drugs make people so screwed up that they laugh at their own murder. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| e407b3b | A death with a clean conscience is a valuable commodity, | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 4b7594e | Self-publishing is pretty darn awesome for some writers, and you can't knock it until you try it. Like most things, huh?" She winked at him. "All the people who knock Indy publishing don't understand it. They don't understand that the little guy has the same burning to write as the juggernauts of this world. We're all writers at the end of the day, and all we want to do is have people read our stories." | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| c10d7f4 | If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 3ebb63d | O proud philanthropist, your hope is vainTo get by giving what you lost by gain. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 2482f66 | Okay, well, Mr Raven, my advice to you is to stop taking yourself so seriously. Stop trying to be so smart, and concentrate on telling a story. People want to be entertained. If they want to be educated they buy a text book." Her accent returned. "That's my two-bob, take it or leave it." | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 67ca7f1 | pulchritudinous. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| a4565b3 | Before Zack passed out from the blood loss, he was able to utter one last thing. "Mum... I think I should have worn a condom." | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 3b9a351 | If you were a character in one of my books, I could cut you without changing the plot in the slightest. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| a2758d7 | It was only ever a matter of time before an alcoholic let you down. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| b3a3c1f | coppery eyebrows. "Was it human?" "Of course not," the husband answered. "Don't you think we would have reported something like that to the police?" "You could" | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 9e3c869 | If you spent your whole life trying to get rich, you only ended up wasting life in the process. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| dee4e11 | think that we hold on to symbols because it makes our feelings easier to tie down and make sense of. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 3906fc7 | come here because it reminds me that there are other people who have nothing left in their lives except regret. If I stayed at home I'd lose sight of the fact that I'm not alone in misery - that I'm not the world's unluckiest | Iain Rob Wright |