"One should use common words to say uncommon things"

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Writing Quotes #Use Quotes #Common Quotes

“Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.”
“The hand that follows intellect can achieve.”
“In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.”

Source : Ursula Bloom (1967). “A roof and four walls”
“At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.”
“The worst kind of idiot is the one who doesn't think they're an idiot.”
“I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. Its not the diva speaking. Its the artist who knows how it has to be done.”
“We intersect. He says he thanks every star that we existed on the same celestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man-made throughway for intersecting dreams.”

Source : Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.172, A&C Black
“You just get better with age. You learn yourself and the league. I'm starting to understand more about hitting every year.”

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