"In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write."

-- Theodore Roethke

#Girl Quotes #Writing Quotes #Boys Quotes

“How often we forget to dedicate ourselves to that which truly matters! We forget that we are children of God.”
“You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.”

Source : Song: I Almost Forgot, Album: 100% Fun
“That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.”
“Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.”

Source : Billy Collins (2014). “The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems”, p.58, University of Arkansas Press
“When it comes to exercise, I don't like anything that's too serious.”

Source : "Role Models: Five Victoria's Secret Angels Reveal Their Fitness Secrets". Interview with Esther Adams Achara, www.vogue.com. July 14, 2011.
“Can I - do I have to be obsessed with it and proceed from that? Not always. But when I'm on top of my game, I definitely think about the way that the world sees me and the way that the world thinks about painting. You must.”
“In a late-night monologue, it's not just about being funny; you have to come off as knowledgeable. You have to cultivate a persona of trust and intelligence and likeability.”
“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.94, Macmillan

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