"You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes #Brain Quotes

“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”
“There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.”
“A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.”
“Curran and I mixed about as well as glycerin and nitric acid: put us together, shake a bit, and hit the deck as we exploded.”
“I donâ€™t find it fun watching someone trying to be sexy. Itâ€™s whack. Iâ€™m trying to just show my true personality, and I think that means more than anything else. I think when personality is at the forefront, its not about male or female, its just about, who is this weird character?”
“So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist”
“Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee.”

Source : "China's Xi to tread peaceful, patient path on Taiwan", www.reuters.com. February 25, 2013.
“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”

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