"...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had."

-- Brenda Ueland

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.”
“I've always been a fan of [Mary Elizabeth Winstead's]. She gets to do some fun action-y stuff she brings this gritty swashbuckle to. I think there's a lot of movies that have women in peril running away from the scarier things and then end up being saved by a man, so it's great to see this character MacGyver her way out of situations, whether physically MacGyvering away, or mentally MacGyvering a way out of something. I relate to her more than I relate to most leading men in movies.”

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“For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South...”
“Wiggles hissed as I crossed the floor toward the throne. She fixed me with her empty hateful eyes and smelled the air, her long tongue shivering through the slit of the lipless mouth. Nice to see you too, sweetheart. Remember my cattle prod?”
“Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.”
“The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.”
“Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.”
“Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.”

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