Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[kingzeppelin]

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.


Marilyn Monroe

[blunthead]

So okay--there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all...as long as you tell the truth. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[randallFlaggfan1]

"In His time. In His time. He makes all things beautiful in His time."

-Diane Ball, In His Time

[randallFlaggfan1]

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”

J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

[kingzeppelin]

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.


Mae West

[blunthead]

For me, not working is the real work. When I'm writing, it's all the playground, and the worst three hours I ever spent there were still pretty damned good. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[randallFlaggfan1]

“The past is never where you think you left it.”

-Katherine Anne Porter

[kingzeppelin]

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

[randallFlaggfan1]

"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

-‎William Butler Yeats, Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

[Becks19]

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
- William Dean Howells

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes, the day how long. Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
- Maltbie D. Babcock


A president's hardest task is not to do what's right, but to know what's right.
- Lyndon B. Johnson


All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.
- Ingmar Bergman