Writing Quotes
Oct. 7th, 2008 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladlloydI've discovered that iGoogle offers a bunch of daily quote gadgets, so now I have an entire tab devoted to quotes.
A sampling of today's quotes includes:
"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?" George Orwell (which reminds me of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marycatelli's recent post about making each scene pull its own weight)
"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve." Mary Kay Ash
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Sir Richard Steele
"In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation." Stéphane Mallarmé (French Poet)
"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy." Steven Weinberg
"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop." Alfred Hitchcock (which makes me think about our current push-me-pull-me relationship with electronic books, which can't be used as doorstops, at all)
"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth." Oliver Wendall Holmes
"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends." George Will
"We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read." Abraham Lincoln
"At this very moment you and I are either committing [selfishness], or about to commit it, or repenting it." C. S. Lewis
"I'm delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow. Something is happening in Memphis, something is happening in our world." Martin Luther King
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature." Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake." Ernest Hemingway (Also, seen as: "I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?")
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone." Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid and stable business." John Steinbeck
A sampling of today's quotes includes:
"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?" George Orwell (which reminds me of
marycatelli's recent post about making each scene pull its own weight)"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve." Mary Kay Ash
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Sir Richard Steele
"In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation." Stéphane Mallarmé (French Poet)
"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy." Steven Weinberg
"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop." Alfred Hitchcock (which makes me think about our current push-me-pull-me relationship with electronic books, which can't be used as doorstops, at all)
"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth." Oliver Wendall Holmes
"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends." George Will
"We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read." Abraham Lincoln
"At this very moment you and I are either committing [selfishness], or about to commit it, or repenting it." C. S. Lewis
"I'm delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow. Something is happening in Memphis, something is happening in our world." Martin Luther King
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature." Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake." Ernest Hemingway (Also, seen as: "I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?")
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone." Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid and stable business." John Steinbeck
