"The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day."

-- Sheila Bender

#Distance Quotes #Writing Quotes #Journey Quotes

“I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.”
“Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.”
“And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.”
“Beware of economists who hide assumptions.”
“A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.”
“When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.”
“There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and in election after election the people vote into power representatives who are as unable as they are unwilling to do anything about it.”
“The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.”

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