Sarah Butland » Random Quotes http://sarahbutland.com/blog For Writers, For Readers, For You Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:37:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 November 17th Quote Installments http://sarahbutland.com/blog/2009/11/17/november-17th-quote-installments/ http://sarahbutland.com/blog/2009/11/17/november-17th-quote-installments/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:25:39 +0000 Sarah Butland http://sarahbutland.com/blog/?p=481 [...]]]>

Being ‘down’ is part of the process, in my opinion, I’d be very leery of anybody who was ‘up’ all the time. Personally, i think a drug screening would be warranted.

Mr Modem AKA Richard A Sherman

Be brief, for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

When the question is therefore asked, ‘Are writers made or born?’ one should first ask, ‘Do you mean writers with talent or writers with originality?’ Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms for writing.

Jack Kerouac

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Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.

- Mary Tyler Moore

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: “To rise above the little things.”

- John Burroughs

A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.

- Lao-Tzu

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

- Mark Twain

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

- Anonymous

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

- Bob Talbert

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

- Helen Keller

Humour is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crop’s up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

- Mark Twain

No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.

- Alice Walker

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

- Michael Cibenko

If silence is gold, then speech is platinum. It spreads wisdom, dispels ignorance, ventilates grievances, stimulates curiosity, lightens the spirits and lessens the fundamental loneliness of the soul.

- Jan Struther, Try Anything Twice

There are people who would kill or die for love. It’s not enough to be in love; you’ve got to be loved. And by the right person.

- one of Celine Dion’s cameraman

I’ve known you forever but I feel like I’m meeting you for the first time tonight.

- Dawson’s Creek

Anyone can change their fate. Heroes are made – not born.

- Anonymous

Education is a supply ship for a long voyage.

- R Davies

Man is born free yet everywhere he is in chains.

- Rousseau

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

- Voltaire

…by speech and pen to make men more enlightened and better.

- Voltaire

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My pen became my oxygen supply. Writing became my therapist.

I don’t exist without writing.

I don’t see the world unless I see it in ink.

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

Most of us don’t spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

Jewel

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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
? Albert Einstein

“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T. S. Eliot
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
Socrates

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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Calvin : You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes : What mood is that?
Calvin : Last-minute panic.

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