Pages Quotes - Page 24

• I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.

  Harriet Doerr

  Memories, Rain, Squares

  Harriet Doerr (1996). “The Tiger in the Grass: Stories and Other Inventions”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Be...As a page that aches for a word
  Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

  Neil Diamond

  Writing, Speak, Timeless

  Song: Be, Album: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, 1973

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• Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Character, Cities

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• The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

  Bill Moyers

  Commitment, Information, Gone

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• To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.

  Albert Einstein

  Daughter, Teacher, Son

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• Although logging workouts seems to be a very simple action, it is often forgotten. Once several days go by, it is hard to remember what was done on a particular day. After working out for several months, you will feel an unbelievable sense of achievement when flipping through the pages of the log book. You should also notice a sign of improvement. 'Material proof' can be great motivation and will encourage you to keep on going.

  Xeno Muller

  Workout, Motivation, Book

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• Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

  Johan Huizinga

  Sunday, America, Innocence

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• They have no power over you. It's all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they coax; they threaten; but they really carry no stick at all. You give in out of habit. You give in because you never really bother to look beyond the threat. It is all empty back there. There is only one way to learn this lesson, though. The words on this page won't do it.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Discipline, Giving, Over You

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

  Ashley Scott

  Character, Preparation, My Favorite

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• You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

  Daniel Clowes

  Photography, Giving, Sparks

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• I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'

  Candice Accola

  Writing, People, Lasts

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• Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

  Roger Taylor

  Journey, Together Again, Musical

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• The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Fall, Track, Poetry

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• It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.

  Garrison Keillor

  God, Eye, People

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• A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

  Drew Barrymore

  Meaningful, Imperfection, Messages

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• [...] we must start by inspiring our children with a sense of purpose...by nurturing their imagination so that they may dream big and then work hard to reach those dreams. Too often, our children spend hours playing Playstation without ever finding out how to build Playstation. They watch television but never wonder how it's put together. They surf web page after web page on the Internet, but are never taught how to design one.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Dream, Children

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• I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Names, Want

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• So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.

  Mike Myers

  Book, Thinking, Eight

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• They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.

  Helmut Newton

  Thinking, Guy, Needs

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• If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  Real, Goes On, Surprise

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• Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.

  John Fowles

  Hazards, Looks, May

  "The Aristos".

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• Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

  Warren Buffett

  Family And Friends, Would Be, Hometown

  "Warren Buffett's Super Simple Advice For Becoming Successful" by Peter Gasca, www.businessinsider.com. August 08, 2014.

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• Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost of a claim to be thought a good fencer.To my vision his merits have still seemed to dwindle,Since I have found him allied with the great Dr T[yndall]While I have, for my part, grown cockier and cockier,Since I found an ally in yourself, Mr L[ockyer]And am always, in consequence, thoroughly willin',To perform in the pages of Nature's M[acmillan].

  Peter Tait

  Vision, Merit, Allies

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• But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.

  Umberto Eco

  Men, Seductive, Sin

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity.

  Ken McCarthy

  People, Want, Clarity

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