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Willpower is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment. If I set for myself a task, be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you take only what is worth having.
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When youth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years. But too often does youth think that age knows only the wisdom of days that are gone, and therefore profits not.
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
'Fickle Fate’ is a vicious goddess who brings no permanent good to anyone. On the contrary, she brings ruin to almost every man upon whom she showers unearned gold. She makes wanton spenders, who soon dissipate all they receive and are left beset by overwhelming appetites and desires they have not the ability to gratify.
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded. The Gods were content to let us continue thus.
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 6:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You’ll know which to use if you know your character, and we’ll learn something about the speaker that will make him or her more vivid and interesting. The point is to let each character speak freely, without regard to what the Legion of decency or the Christian Ladies’ Reading Circle may approve of. To do otherwise would be cowardly as well as dishonest, and believe me, writing fiction in America as we enter the twenty-first century is no job for intellectual cowards. There are lots of would-be censors out there and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see… or to at least shut up about what you do see that’s different. They are agents of the status quo. Not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom.
Speaker: Stephen KingPosted: 25 Aug 2008 at 1:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading, or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic. That goes for reading and writing as well as for playing a musical instrument, hitting a baseball, or running the four-forty. The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate – four to six hours a day, every day – will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them; in fact, you may be following such a program already. If you feel you need permission to do all the reading and writing your little heart desires, however, consider it hereby granted by yours truly.
Speaker: Stephen KingPosted: 25 Aug 2008 at 1:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they’re like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day… fifty the day after that… and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions.
Speaker: Stephen KingPosted: 25 Aug 2008 at 1:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Oh, to hell with it. If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of the New York Yankees or the Houston Oilers, or what label “Hang On Sloopy” by The McCoys was on, you are capable of remembering the difference between a gerund (verb form used as a noun) and a participle (verb form used as an adjective).
Speaker: Stephen KingPosted: 25 Aug 2008 at 1:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.”
Speaker: Stephen KingPosted: 25 Aug 2008 at 1:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Speaker: Herm AlbrightPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Speaker: AesopPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Speaker: AesopPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water; they are good servants but bad masters.
Speaker: AesopPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You live and learn. At any rate you live
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life… is like a grapefruit. It’s orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!