Posts tagged ‘short story’

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream." -- Mark Twain

Love letters and poems aren't the least bit difficult to write, if you write directly from your heart into the ink and don't channel through your brain first. ~Graycie Harmon

"When you are describing/ A shape, or sound, or tint/ Don't state the matter plainly/ But put it in a hint/ And learn to look at all things/ With a sort of mental squint." ~Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ~Oscar Wilde

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? ~Friedrich Nietzsche

A melody is like seeing someone for the first time. The physical attraction. But then, as you get to know the person, that's the lyrics. Their story. Who they are underneath. It's the combination of the two that makes it magical - 'Music & Lyrics'