"Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor."

-- Joyce Carol Oates

#Dirty Quotes #Noses Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.”

Source : Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.138, The New Press
“Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.”
“I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm not saying I'm glad it happened. Not exactly. But I'm not sorry to be the person I am today, and to have the life I have now. Even though it's not what I thought I wanted for my future, a year ago, it is what I want now. ...”
“A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.”
“I got a little tattoo on my face, I'll never be able to work another real job so I consider that to be kinda forcing myself to stick to music.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They're geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.”
“Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.”

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