Quotes that make you stop

[DGSquared]

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.


—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

[Spell Chick]

Tip from an author:

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

[Spell Chick]

I don't know any publishers so I can't vouch for this.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly

[Roisin]

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."

-Solomon Short

[thatollie]

Here's one from me, I'll find the link for it sooner or later.

Revelation is all about patience and balance, if you give too much away before the big payoff, your readers will already have it figured. On the other side, if you don't reveal enough, the reader will feel cheated. It's a hard task and something I'm always trying to improve.

[Big T]

"What the hell do you think you're doing Rawson"?
- A. Rawson

and one from my Grandmother ... origin unknown

"Today's the day we worried about yesterday ... and all's well thank God"

T

[Spell Chick]

More help for writers and critics.

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." - H. G. Wells

[Cathy C]

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

-Louis-Hector Berlioz.

[Mark H]

"I've got meetings up the wazoo" DGSquared in the MWC bar.

I have no idea what this means but I'm going to start using it as an excuse at work. "Sorry matey, I would love to help but I've got meetings up the wazoo!"

[DGSquared]

"I've got meetings up the wazoo" DGSquared in the MWC bar.

I have no idea what this means but I'm going to start using it as an excuse at work. "Sorry matey, I would love to help but I've got meetings up the wazoo!"

OMG! I just laughed so loudly, I nearly woke up the entire household! I had no idea it sounded so bad until you posted it here.

Don't take it literally. The meetings are actually in board-rooms. You know why they call them board or rather bored-rooms don't you? Thus making them a pain in the butt ergo the wazoo and oh never mind.

Good luck using that as an excuse Cita.

I hope you'll let me know how it works for you. Thank you so much for the fit of laughter, Mark. I needed it.
 

[Mark H]

http://www.mywriterscircle.com/index.php?topic=11225.msg119733#msg119733 

[DGSquared]

You are just wicked, bad. I was trumped at every line of that verse.

[Spell Chick]

 "Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive."
   C.S. Lewis was born on November 29, 1898

Especially for Narnian Admiration Society members 

[thatollie]

There is only one infinite thing in the universe, imagination.

[Spell Chick]

There is only one infinite thing in the universe, imagination.

What about stupidity? Einstein said that was infinite, right?