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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

V.S. Naipaul

Christian sister, if the way you dressed as an unbeliever is same now as a believer, what changed? in it doesn't matter, there are a dozen matters.

Apostle Suleman Johnson

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

V.S. Naipaul

There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.

Naomi Watts

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

V.S. Naipaul

I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

Naomi Watts

There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's slightly scary.

Naomi Watts

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

Edward Young

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Napoleon Hill

Every religion there's something foul going on.

Ja Rule

If a man does his best, what else is there?

George S. Patton

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

George S. Patton

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

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I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.

Ja Rule

My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?

Ja Rule

I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

Ja Rule

I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves. Break the cycle.

Ja Rule

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Napoleon Hill

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

George S. Patton

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Napoleon Hill

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Helen Keller

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Helen Keller

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

V.S. Naipaul

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

V.S. Naipaul

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

J. D. Salinger

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

J. D. Salinger

There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

J. D. Salinger

I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.

Kami Garcia

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.