#calls

Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls or e-mails because, in the moment, just about any task seems more palatable than sitting down to write.” (p.136) ↗

— Mark David Gerson

#filing #floors #fridges #returning-calls #toilets

But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to Conor's. Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream? ↗

— Patrick Ness

#conor #dream #monster #dreams

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#gives #glut #information #itself #less

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.' ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#bible #calls #century #into #move

There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day your agent calls you us and says, 'guess what, you're a movie star,' and you say, 'Thank you!' ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#anymore #better #build #calls #day

In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#because #bizarre #calls #definitely #everyone

Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. ↗

— Cory Booker

#asked #balanced #being #calls #class

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason. ↗

— Hal Borland

#calls #constantly #deals #fact #faith

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls. ↗

— James Broughton

#calls #flags #issue #major #out

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. ↗

— Pam Brown

#calls #completely #drying #every #just