Year: 2009

Malcolm Gladwell

“The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.”

Anais Nin

“Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, …

Ken Rockwell

“Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and …

Sharon Gold

“Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you’re waking up to instant stress. You shouldn’t be bullied out of …

E. B. White

“People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.”

Tom Stoppard

“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being …

William Faulkner

“The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to …

Paul Harvey

“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.”

Gail Pool

“Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.”

Peter De Vries

“I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.”

James Carr

“I don’t have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.”

Mason Cooley

“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“A self that is only differentiated – not integrated – may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same …

Elizabeth Moon

“It’s all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right …

Charles W. Eliot

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”

Fred Allen

“I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.”

William Ralph Inge

“A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.”

Mo Udall

“If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.”

Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde

“Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come …

Chuck Sigars

“Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.”

Phillip C. McGraw

“At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether …

Suzanne Gordon

“To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.”

Barbara Tober

“Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.”

Socrates

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”

Amber Deckers

“Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the …

Susan Partnow

“It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.”

Jack London

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

Mike Myers

“And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you’re beautiful, so don’t let other people tell you that you’re not just …

Isaac Asimov

“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.”

Rita Rudner

“Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.”

Bette Midler

“I never know how much of what I say is true.”

Hugh Elliott

“Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn …

J. K. Rowling

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

H. Mathews

“A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.”