If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. —Peter Ustinov More about this quote Tags: knowledge certainty expertise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. —Edith Sitwell More about this quote Tags: genius opinions pride madness eccentricity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music. —Marcus Brigstocke More about this quote Tags: technology influence culture computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For me, it’s about morning, quiet, solitude and no Internet to plug me into the cacophony until I have written something. Also about not having a conversation with anyone. Which might be why I am single. I have often woken up to a person next to me who says in a sleepy affectionate way ‘Hey—what are you up today?’ and I answer but all I am thinking is ‘You killed it! It’s over! Now I can’t write today.’ —Guinevere Turner More about this quote Tags: solitude writing productivity routine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world. —Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle More about this quote Tags: kindness happiness world Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. —Jimmy Breslin More about this quote Tags: writing anger rage newspapers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. —Galileo Galilei More about this quote Tags: truth discovery knowledge obviousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. —Thomas Fuller More about this quote Tags: hope disappointment heart Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. —Leonard Bernstein More about this quote Tags: inspiration writing waiting working Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Free advice is worth the price. —Robert Half More about this quote Tags: advice cost Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me. —Veronica Roth in Allegiant More about this quote Tags: love relationships choice confrontation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: intelligence knowledge competence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. —Indira Gandhi More about this quote Tags: peace anger aggression Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some people think that a place can save them. Like if they could just be somewhere else, their lives would be totally different. They could finally be the people they always wanted to be. But to me, a place is just a place. If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are. —Hannah Harrington in Saving June More about this quote Tags: life change aspiration transformation place Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dream in a pragmatic way. —Aldous Huxley More about this quote Tags: idealism dream pragmatism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email