"I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week."

-- Chaim Potok

#Writing Quotes #Half Quotes #Six Quotes

“Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?”
“Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.”

Source : Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.121, Open Road Media
“Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.”
“The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.”

Source : "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 142, 1999.
“In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.”
“Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?”

Source : Vine Deloria, Jr. (2010). “The World We Used to Live in: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men (Large Print 16pt)”, p.300, ReadHowYouWant.com
“If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.”
“Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.”

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