"When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation”
“There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.”

Source : "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq". Book by Thomas E. Ricks, armedforcesjournal.com. July 2006.
“Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.”
“The kid looks good in his first game.”
“Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.”
“A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.”
“You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.”
“I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.”

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