"Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do."

-- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Occupation Quotes

“Asked if he knew how important Stardust would be, Mitchell Parish said he did have a gut feeling that this was a momentous one. But had no idea it would become a standard. You don't sit down and write a standard, he explained. A standard evolves.”
“We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce “Scientific meta-physics”
“Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music it makes me feel closer to home.”
“If we had known our love would come to this we could have saved our hearts the hurt of wasted years.”

Source : Song: Goodbye Time, 2004
“We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization”
“If ever there was one player, anywhere in the world, that was made for Manchester United, it was Cantona. He swaggered in, stuck his chest out, raised his head and surveyed everything as though he was asking: 'I'm Cantona. How big are you? Are you big enough for me?'”
“Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil, who himself for his pride was cast down from heaven into the dominions of the air, wishes by every means to attach men to earthly,- sensual, transitory things, and, in order to attain this end, he employs the most powerful, most prodigious means.”
“But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.”

Source : Lawrence Hill (2009). “The Book of Negroes”, p.117, Random House

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