"I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era."

-- Bruce Feiler

#Writing Quotes #Library Quotes #Eras Quotes

“I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. Iâ€™d break my wifeâ€™s legs if I played against her, but Iâ€™d never cheat her.”
“There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.”
“John rose to his feet and apologized to Holiday. Her mom seethed. Her dad tried to talk to her seething mom. Holiday tried to touch everyone. Burnett continued to glare green daggers at John, proving how hard it was for a vampire to accept an apology. Not that she blamed him. Kill him. Kill him. She cheered the vampire on. Lucas hadn't stopped scowling at Derek and Derek hadn't stopped ignoring Lucas.”
“We tend to outdo ourselves.”
“I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or trÃ¨s fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.”
“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisisâ€”small or large, brother-in-law or end-of-quarter office lockdownâ€”like a beach ball on water. The next time a problem arises in your life, take a deep breath, let out a sigh, and replace the thought Oh no! with the thought Okay.”
“To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is.”

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