Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[sprinco12]

My current favorite quote is:

"If you don't have the time to read, then you don't have the time or the tools to write."
-Stephen King

How true is that? Answer: 100%

[Haunted]

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
~ Albert Einstein

[randallFlaggfan1]

“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”

-Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

"If you don't have the time to read, then you don't have the time or the tools to write."
-Stephen King

That's a favorite of mine, as well. Thank you for sharing.

[~Ally~]

Okay, here are a few of my favourite Oscar Wilde quotes...always guaranteed to make me chuckle/think!

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."

"Men always want to be a woman's first love, women like to be a man's last romance."

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when all the flowers are dead."

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

And my all time favourite..."I can resist everything except temptation."

[randallFlaggfan1]

“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.”

-Gabriel García Márquez

[Anni M]

"HOW YOU FREAKS DOING?"
Sebastian Bach

Hi guys, long time!!

[blunthead]

Some writers try to evade the no-adverb rule by shooting the attribution verb full of steroids. The result is familiar to any reader of pulp fiction or paperback originals:

"Put down the gun!" Jekyll grated.
"Never stop kissing me!" Shayna gasped.
"You damned tease!" Bill jerked out.

Don't do these things. Please oh please. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[randallFlaggfan1]

"HOW YOU FREAKS DOING?"
Sebastian Bach

Hi guys, long time!!

Hi, Anni M-
Long time, indeed! It's great seeing you here again.


“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

-Robert Frost

[Haunted]

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
~ Leo Buscaglia

[Haunted]

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~ Aristotle