Practicing Your Craft Quotes

1. "A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle."
Author: Anatole Broyard

2. "Nobody's fucked me that good in ages." I laughed. "I didn't even get you off." "You will. Unless you broke your hip or something."
Author: Cara McKenna

3. "Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."
Author: David M. Burns

4. "He's a guy. We're easy and stupid. Just go bat your eyes at him and beg for forgiveness. It'll take five minutes…three if you wear something low-cut."
Author: Elle Lothlorien

5. "You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded."
Author: Emily Saliers

6. "Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow."
Author: Frank Delaney

7. "A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet."
Author: Helen Rowland

8. "Cussed fellow-critters! Kick up de damndest row as ever you can; fill your dam bellies 'till dey bust - and den die"
Author: Herman Melville

9. "New English word added by theOxford literary institute... "Moyes",meaning loss; for example, Weare sorry for the Moyes of Mandela,you will Moyes your money if you beton ManUnited... it is now both a verb anda noun, and can be used in place oflose, loss andlost... Haaa... I am at a Moyes forwords!"
Author: Ifeanyi Dede

10. "I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all."
Author: Jim Bolger

11. "Oh." He sat in confused silence for a few seconds. "Can I ask you a very serious question?""I rather you didn't," I said.He stared straight into my eyes. "If you were an animal, what animal would you be?"WAIT, WHAT? "Wait, what?""It's a classic icebreaker.""If I were an ANIMAL...?"He faked a sigh and checked an imaginary watch. "Your inability to answer the question doesn't bode well for-""I refuse to answer that," I said. "On the grounds that it's probably the stupidest thing I've ever been asked."He stared at me, frowning. "I hear your subconscious saying MONKEY."
Author: Katie Alender

12. "A ray of sunshine, I bring to the world my passion of guiding others to their point of power by first loving themselves from the inside out. I Am on a never ending journey of self discovery and that has earned me a PHd in life experience I share with you. If your ready to walk the path of happy, I am your partner and together we Can transform your world into something extraordinarily awesome."
Author: Lee Pryke

13. "If you care too much about a person you will loose your importance in his life"
Author: Neha Tariq

14. "You have that expression on your face that speaks of incipient moral dubiousness,' Torin observed, making me glad I'd bought that thesaurus a few years back."
Author: Rachel Hawkins

15. "His voice hardened again.'Now get back to your room-if you can manage it without throwing yourself at someone else.' "Is that your subtle way of calling me a slut?"
Author: Richelle Mead

16. "Does it not whet your appetite for the critical opera omnia of such an author, where he will freely have at the lenth and breath of Scripture? Can you not see his promised land flowing with peanut butter and jelly; his apocalypse, in which the great whore of Babylon is given the cup of ginger ale of the fierceness of the wrath of God?"
Author: Robert Farrar Capon

17. "Yes, I am scared of prison. It's the last thing if you are after building up a business over 38 years and you are approaching your 66th birthday and you never owed a man a penny and you feel hard done by and you try to protect yourself and your family and go to prison - if that is the society we are living in, I am happy to accept that."
Author: Sean Quinn

18. "Life has a way of poking holes in your plans, or in the plans others make for you"
Author: Sheena Iyengar

19. "I see your bleeding dark side. I feel your angry heart. Reveals forbidden places. More monster yet alive..."
Author: Static X

20. "Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone's chair, but I'm ready for this and I catch her easily by the arm."Sorry, clumsy," she says."You always were, Sadie. One of your more endearing traits."Before she can ask about that I slip my arm around her waist. She slips hers around mine, still looking up at me. The lights skate across her cheeks and shine in her eyes. We clasp hands, fingers folding together naturally, and for me the years fall away like a coat that's too heavy and too tight. In that moment, I hope on thing above all others: that she was not too busy to find at least one good man …She speaks in a voice almost too low to be heard over the music. But I hear her – I always did. "Who are you, George?""Someone you knew in another life, honey."
Author: Stephen King

21. "If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don't understand it. Think of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words—not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another!"
Author: William Crookes

22. "I bleed myself to be your drink:Is not the blood of poets—ink?"
Author: William Soutar

23. "A single word can brighten the faceof one who knows the value of words.Ripened in silence, a single wordacquires a great energy for work.War is cut short by a word,and a word heals the wounds,and there's a word that changespoison into butterand honey.Let a word mature inside yourself.Withhold the unripened thought.Come and understand the kind of wordthat reduces money and riches to dust.Know when to speak a wordand when not to speak at all.A single word turns the universe of hellinto eight paradises.Follow the Way. Don't be fooledby what you already know. Be watchful.Reflect before you speak.A foolish mouth can brand your soul.Yunus, say one last thingabout the power of words –Only the word "I"divides me from God."
Author: Yunus Emre

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