#ture

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#grand #important #literature #lord #lord of the rings

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice? ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#makes #nobody #perfect #practice #practice makes

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch. ↗

— Tom Arnold

#else #fails #feel #move #nature

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world. ↗

— Francis Atterbury

#any #believe #discoveries #even #evidence

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#attainment #awaits #continuous #desires #feast

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#alone #author #away #being #enough

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#english #everything #furniture #heavy #i

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#grasped #journalism #literature #once #read

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#because #day #down #hang #i

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#development #equal #equal right #equity #eternal