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Taking Quotes (page 201)

Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up. Margaret Atwood
Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy.... Anne Lamott
For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing. Virginia Woolf
Some things take so long. But how do I explain. When not too many people. Can see we're all the same. And because of all their tears. Your eyes can't hope to see. The beauty that surrounds them. Now, isn't it a pity George Harrison
Mario Puzo quote: "Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a..."
Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult. Mario Puzo
Expect nothing. Live frugally. On surprise. become a stranger. To need of pity. Or, if compassion be freely. Given out. Take only enough. Stop short of urge to plead. Then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger. Than your own small heart. Or greater than a star; Tame wild disappointment. With caress unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka. For your soul. Discover the reason why. So tiny human midget. Exists at all. So scared unwise. But expect nothing. Live frugally. On surprise. Alice Walker
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does..."
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place. Ursula K. Le Guin
It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. Ray Bradbury
A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird. Lady Gaga
Saul Bellow quote: "You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially..."
You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially with people whose rules of life are few. Saul Bellow
Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote: "The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which..."
The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Meg Cabot quote: "We need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are,..."
We need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for. Meg Cabot
Franklin D. Roosevelt quote: "As a nation we may take pride in the fact that we are..."
As a nation we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed Franklin D. Roosevelt
The jackal with one eye that looks back and one that regards the path you consider taking. In his jaws are pieces of the past he delivers to you, and when all of that time is fully discovered it will prove to have been already known. Michael Ondaatje
Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding. These words are meant as conveniences untilreal understanding can be found. Sometimes understanding comes and the temporary words can be replaced with wordsthat have more meaning. More often, however, the patch words will take on a life of their own and no one will remember that they were only intended to be placeholders. Scott Adams

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