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Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Anything that gets students to write is good.
WILLIAM HARRELL
The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO
War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER
Writing and achieving your goals is not failure, not having a goal to write in the first place is th...
ONYI ANYADO
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if...
WALTER GILBERT
Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is present...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING
PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA
Teaching is a dialogue, and it is through the process of engaging students that we see ideas taken f...
MARTHA BOLES
Based on the topic, we pick a goal for the students to work toward. Every month they have three goal...
DARLA MARTIN
Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, com...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY
The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY
The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas...
OLIVER MARKUS
I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time ...
ISABEL ALLENDE
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
PAUL GOODMAN
One of our main goals for the club is to make this as a fundamental of good writing for the students...
AARON DAY
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, eve...
WALTER GILBERT
Where education is moving today is differentiated instruction for all students.
MATT HAUSMANN
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER
not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE
If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
All the students were in charge of interviewing, writing, brainstorming ideas and designing.
ANDREA GIBSON
The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.
EDWARD TUFTE
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing,...
E. L. DOCTOROW
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION
We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C.
To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
ZSA ZSA GABOR
To err is human, but it feels divine.
MAE WEST
Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
NICK TOSCHES
Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED
If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...
Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER
Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER
To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS...
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're do...
E. L. DOCTOROW
If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN
My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. ...
PARDIS SABETI
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disagg...
KIM EDWARDS
I am what I have ever read
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
A writer is a thought smith; he educates men to think for themselves
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them w...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to oursel...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO
Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO
Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO
The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO
Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO
We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO
Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO
I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO
We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO
I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO
A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a jo...
CHILA WOYCHIK
There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA
I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of bo...
JANDY NELSON
To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism t...
DARYL HALL
It's not that we're trying to prevent students from getting exposure to the ideas in these textbooks...
CHRISTOPHER PATTI
I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion...
LIBBA BRAY
Teaching is really very, very important. I always tell my students that you should find an opportuni...
ITZHAK PERLMAN
Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me...
BILL CLEGG
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Be always excited about being alive,because life is good.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.

“Writing for te...
L.L. BARKAT
I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C.
My usual instruction to students when they are preparing to write their examinations is "think befor...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Our goal is to get better students and send a message that these things really matter. The great stu...
ROBERT STERNBERG
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA
If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who ...
TREVOR NUNN
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposur...
E. W. DIJKSTRA
I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting cl...
AMY HEMPEL
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS
Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY
Our plan is that there is no impact on students in the classroom. We are there for the children and ...
DEBBIE CAVALIERE

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People know you are on top of this and will do what is needed.
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I have a pig valve.
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I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
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A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
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I didn't have a very religious family.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
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I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
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I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots...
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fr...
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni...
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As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for...
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I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat...
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Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
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Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
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Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
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Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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All of my characters are less than perfect.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against...
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The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our de...
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slop...
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We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must ...
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practi...
BARBARA KRUGER
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages...
BARBARA KRUGER
I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what...
BARBARA KRUGER
Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm intere...
BARBARA KRUGER
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons...
BARBARA KRUGER
I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different...
BARBARA KRUGER
Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs ...
BARBARA KRUGER
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to sur...
BARBARA KRUGER
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, ins...
BARBARA KRUGER
Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic...
BARBARA KRUGER
Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a...
BARBARA KRUGER
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome...
BARBARA KRUGER
It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
BARBARA KRUGER
I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning new...
BARBARA KRUGER
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
BARBARA KRUGER
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
BARBARA KRUGER
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated...
BARBARA KRUGER
I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
BARBARA KRUGER
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation ...
BARBARA KRUGER
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
BARBARA KRUGER
We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will ta...
BARBARA KOPPLE
Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
BARBARA KOPPLE
I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin...
BARBARA KOPPLE
I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w...
BARBARA KOPPLE
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
The first sentence of a book is a promise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the l...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER