"If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining."

-- Anne Lamott

#Running Quotes #Writing Quotes #Islands Quotes

“I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded.”
“I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me”
“The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.”
“Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.”
“The beauty behind killing someone who no one thinks you're willing to kill is, of course, that you throw people out of their comfort zone. And that's good because you want people to be on the edge of their seats.”

Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.
“Only acknowledge your limitations for the purpose of overcoming them.”

Source : Randy Gage (2003). “101 Keys to Your Prosperity: Insights on Health, Happiness and Abundance in Your Life”, p.27, Internet Profit Kit
“Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.”
“My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I donâ€™t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I donâ€™t take.”

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