No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats... these are the facts.
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Related I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN And now, my beloved brethren, and also aJew, and all ye ends of the earth, hearken unto these words ... BOOK OF MORMON Wherever the ignorant triumphs, over there the greatest defeats are on the way! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN And all shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of things shall be exceeding well. JULIAN OF NORWICH Give Me Strength! A petition no doubt directed at our Creator above, these words are uttered in tim... SOURCE UNKNOWN At this point, there is not anything big or exciting. That's the basic facts. We are just waiting to... BILL VEST Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ... IRIS MURDOCH In this lovely land of corrugated cartons and plastic bags, we want our entertainment packaged neatl... JUDITH CRIST Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall posses... WALT WHITMAN the day you will loose your tongue;the day you will value the essence of words. The day you will loo... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I've always been interested in all sorts of things. Art, physics, history, philosophy, math -- they'... DAN WOLFE Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions. OGWO DAVID EMENIKE Elvis 30 No. 1 Hits NO DOUBT I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we sha... E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE Silence is better than unmeaning words. PYTHAGORAS All deeds, words, and thoughts on these brief earthly journeys lie nakedly open before the Eyes, Ear... DAVID L. HATTON My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be signific... HENRY DAVID THOREAU It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fu... OWEN GLENDOWER And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said... BIBLE And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclea... BIBLE I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, wri... URSULA BURNS I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not t... TAKESHI KITANO Our players are loose and are a confident bunch. They are approaching the championship game in a bus... BUDD DITCHENDORF For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall a... BIBLE I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all... NATASHA RICHARDSON There is no doubt that the talks are now biting on the key issues that now confront us across all th... PAUL MURPHY All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well. JULIAN OF NORWICH I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records. NILE RODGERS Shara now sits on committees that decide who shall be nominated to be committee chairs for other com... ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT I have OCD and, literally, walking on the left, needing things to be in even numbers with few except... ADAM SILVERA When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up t... TAYLOR SWIFT Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals,... XENOPHANES Insects crawled across my skin, legs skittering across my flesh, numbed paths of cold left in their ... HAZEL BUTLER One of the things that we discovered was the fact that cities like these have not received the media... MIKE LAWSON These labor unions are very apprehensive on the question of Europe. GUY GROUX To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without re... WALTER KAUFMANN I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almo... NED VIZZINI Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of wo... CLAIRE MESSUD I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of m... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not -... ANNE BRONTë We concluded a three-year arc last year with the brother, ... and the little broken family that the ... DAVID CARUSO An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journe... IAIN SINCLAIR When I started at Bloomingdale's as a buyer, Alexander's was a discounter across the street,... MICKEY DREXLER Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who... IMTIAZ ALI When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest bette... C.S. LEWIS You don’t have to be ashamed or embarrassed about your struggles, pains, betrayals, trials and tri... LATIKA TEOTIA It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. ... NED VIZZINI We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die OLIVER GOLDSMITH Every day there's another country. It's going to go all the way across, there's no doubt about it. DR. ANTHONY FAUCI I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life... PAMELA ADLON I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about i... IDRIS ELBA It's little things, just tying up loose ends, CURT SCHILLING Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all h... BIBLE To my mind's eye, my buried memories of Brandham Hall are like effects of chiaroscuro, patches of li... L.P. HARTLEY April comes to us, with her showers sweet. I wake to the cries of little birds before the light come... NED HAYES I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it. FLEA Life is a journey through a foreign land. O.R. MELLING The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed. MICHAEL R. PHILLIPS Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls
What triumphs shall be yours!
For all are happy and rich ... ALONZO B. BRAGDON People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have un... TERRY PRATCHETT People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have un... TERRY PRATCHETT How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil's Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of... W. C. FIELDS I always thought I'd write about my dad, at some point, ... I didn't think it would be like this, bu... CAMERON CROWE Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining t... THEODORE DREISER I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too car... JOSEPH O'NEILL You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli fo... HASSAN NASRALLAH I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite hap... BILL BRYSON In man’s own selfish life, the principles of materialism even may become the tenets of spiritualis... ANUJ SOMANY Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated we... CHARLES COMISKEY There are always loose ends in real life. ROBERT GALBRAITH No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON Sometimes I think [my writing] sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running. GENE FOWLER I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be... SETH GRAHAME-SMITH I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on i... GARTH RISK HALLBERG The doubt has the mysterious power to bring out the hidden reality of life. ANUJ SOMANY Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into ... ALICE MCDERMOTT It's like communism, in an abstract manner. No matter how many gold medals these Temecula boys give ... DAVID HUNT For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, ... BIBLE They are working long shifts, and sometimes they wake up a few times a night out of a dead sleep and... BILL WADE One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl ... AUSTIN GROSSMAN I went through periods where you're just sort of writing things that are supposed to be funny and th... CARTER BAYS I just try to stay ahead of my age. It means a lot. I think these are all things you reflect on at t... BRENDAN SHANAHAN It's no secret that they had some loose ends in that investigation that they wanted to move on. HUGH KEEFE I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media stud... RAJIV OUSEPH And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at al... BIBLE As the number and the size of cities keep growing across the world, changing conditions bring shifts... CATIE MARRON Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. RALPH WALDO EMERSON One of the things I try to do with my writing is try to evoke the spirit of the place. I think these... SARAH HALL It’s more believable that a cop would get involved in solving these murders. I mean, you’re talk... JOSH LANYON I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends. JULIA WARD HOWE I was sitting at my computer when I heard three gunshots. I saw our dogs run across the yard and saw... EDIE DUGAN The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and... THOMAS LLOYD QUALLS Every U.S. flag that was ever made -- we can get that. International flags, religious flags, some ci... BOB MATTISON I will say it one last time: Demonation! The feeling of it! There are no words -how can there... CLIVE BARKER As you are aware, since this project also involves the governments of Zimbabwe and Botswana, there a... FANUEL MASIKATI These letters are all I have left. 26 friends to tell my stories to. 26 letters are all I ... TAHEREH MAFI Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you b... SALMAN RUSHDIE
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Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And h... ALEXANDER POPE It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
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Yet holds the eel of science by the tale. ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til... ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know? ALEXANDER POPE We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ALEXANDER COMFORT My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'. SHAUN ALEXANDER A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is... ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most. ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd... ALEXANDER POPE But if
We have such another victory, we are undone. ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice." ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
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Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ... ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
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the rights of others. ALEXANDER POPE Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. ALEXANDER POPE Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live. ALEXANDER HERZEN Most women have no characters at all. ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil... ALEXANDER POPE Most authors steal their works, or buy. ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T... ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. ALEXANDER POPE Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives. ALEXANDER HAMILTON The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit. ALEXANDER HAMILTON The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own ... ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a... ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
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