"What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Trust works both ways”
“We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.”
“But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.”

Source : Interview with Charles R. Cross, www.novoselic.com. November 2002.
“I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.”
“God is not naÃ¯ve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.”
“A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.â€ Benjamin Franklin”
“I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.”
“Since peace is alone in the gift of God; and since it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.”

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