"It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremostâ€”not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things."

-- David Wroblewski

#Ink Quotes #Stories Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste for National and Local Antiquities. Geology gratifies a larger taste of this kind; it inquires into what may appropriately be termed the Antiquities of the Globe itself, and collects and deciphers what may be considered as the monuments and medals of its remoter eras.”

Source : William Buckland (1820). “Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology”, p.6
“Sometimes all it takes to stop traffic is for that right pair of red pumps.”
“The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.”
“We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura.]”
“The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.”

Source : Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.22, Penguin
“The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.”

Source : Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com.
“With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.”

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