"No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document."

-- H. G. Wells

#Writing Quotes #Stronger Quotes #World Quotes

“You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.”

Source : Matthew Thomas (2014). “We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel”, p.594, Simon and Schuster
“Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits”

Source : Frederick C. Crews, Frederick Crews (1988). “Skeptical Engagements”, Oxford University Press, USA
“All these guys are just like me. They were a rookie at one time in their life. They treat me like I'm one of the guys. I look at Greg Maddux and saw him sitting over there and said, 'Man, that's Greg Maddux. That guy is going to be in the Hall of Fame.' Now I sit there and talk to him like a teammate. It's a reality check, and it's a great feeling at the same time.”
“My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.”
“The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.”
“If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.”
“One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.”
“And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.”

Source : "Futurism" edited by Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou, 5 Continents Editions, Milan, (p. 148), 2008.

You may also like:

Aldous Huxley
Writer
Charles Dickens
Writer
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
George Orwell
Novelist
Isaac Asimov
Author
Jules Verne
Novelist
Orson Welles
Actor
Philip K. Dick
Novelist
Ray Bradbury
Writer