Posts tagged “quotations”

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
Virginia Woolf

“If you want the future to be different from the present, study the past.”
Benedict Spinoza

“On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait … and waiting, died.”
George W. Cecil, 1923

I never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.
Clarence Darrow

“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”
B.F. Skinner

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?
Vita Sackville-West

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (b) Jan 30, 1882