"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."

-- Wole Soyinka

#Writing Quotes #Important Quotes #Gestation Quotes

“Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.”
“The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or something in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless - just workin our way toward home.”
“Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.”
“The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together... Everything else passes away; that which you love remains.”

Source : Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.”
“Never worry about what you're going lose but what you're going gain”
“There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.”
“Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.”

Source : "De Institutione Oratoria", XII. 5, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 289-93, 1922.

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