"If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it."

-- Joseph O'Neill

#Writing Quotes #Want Quotes #Madness Quotes

“When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.”

Source : John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.89, Basic Books
“It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.”

Source : "Clive Owen & Jude Law". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. December 10, 2004.
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”

Source : Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
“World peace comes about when each individual lives in a peaceful setting. Likewise, when each individual lives in a peaceful setting, it means that world peace has been realized.”
“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”
“I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.”
“We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.”
“We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation.”

Source : The New York Times, July 14, 1991.

You may also like:

Dwight Garner
Journalist
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author
Irvine Welsh
Novelist
John Updike
Novelist
Marilynne Robinson
Novelist
P. G. Wodehouse
Writer
Rivka Galchen
Writer
William Faulkner
Writer
Zadie Smith
Novelist