"Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Mind Quotes #Gist Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus.”
“Every heat engineer knows he can design his heat engine reliably and accurately on the foundation of the second law [of thermodynamics]. Run alongside one of the molecules, however, and ask it what it thinks of the second law. It will laugh at us. It never heard of the second law. It does what it wants. All the same, a collection of billions upon billions of such molecules obeys the second law with all the accuracy one could want”
“We will never have more affection or passion for God than we understand He has for us. We will never be more committed to God than our understanding of His commitment to us.”
“We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need”
“Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.”
“My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed.....It is not even possible to make a caricature of an evolution out of paleobiological facts...The idea of an evolution rests on pure belief.”
“Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.”
“I think that I write much more naturally about characters in solitude than characters interacting with others. My natural inclination - and one that I've learned to push against - is to give primacy to a character's interior world. Over the three books that I've written, I've had to teach myself that not every feeling needs to be described and that often the most impactful writing more elegantly evokes those unnamed feelings through the way characters speak and behave.”

You may also like:

Baz Luhrmann
Film director
Ernest Hemingway
Author
Gertrude Stein
Writer
Harper Lee
Novelist
J. D. Salinger
Writer
John Steinbeck
Author
Maxwell Perkins
Editor
William Faulkner
Writer
Zelda Fitzgerald
Novelist