"Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one."

-- John Lahr

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Self Quotes

“Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.”
“Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.”
“Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.”

Source : Debbie Macomber (2009). “Mrs. Miracle”, p.24, Harper Collins
“In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.”
“In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.”
“Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.”
“Dean Martin always dressed very well but then he was a good looking fella with a good physique so he could wear anything.”
“We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.”

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