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“Scrivere e leggere letteratura è un modo per allenare la propria capacità di immedesimazione e di immaginazione; è per questo, anche, che esiste.”
“Scrivere non mi fa sentire sola. Metto i pensieri per iscritto perché mi piace rileggerli. I pensieri che hai in cammino non ritornano. Così come il viaggio che fai è unico e irripetibile, allo stesso modo le sensazioni che provi sono irripetibili. Poterle ricordare così come le hai provate serve alla riflessione, aiuta a renderti consapevole dell'esperienza che stai vivendo.
Alessandra Beltrame, "Io cammino da sola”
Source: Io cammino da sola
“Scrivere per me vuol dire rovesciare tutte le mie emozioni su un pezzo di carta. Trasmettere passione, regalare sorrisi, emozioni, sentimenti forti come, amore, paura, e felicità…”
Source: Innocent Demons (Legami di sangue #1).
“Scrivere è avanzare parola dopo parola su un filo di bellezza, il filo di una poesia, di un'opera, di una storia adagiata su carta di seta. Scrivere è avanzare passo dopo passo, pagina dopo pagina, sul cammino del libro. Il difficile non è elevarsi dal suolo e mantenersi in equilibrio sul filo del linguaggio, aiutato dal bilanciere della penna. Non è neppure andar dritto su una linea continua e talvolta interrotta da vertigini effimere quanto la cascata di una virgola o l'ostacolo di un punto. No, il difficile, per il poeta, è rimanere costantemente su quel filo che è la scrittura, vivere ogni ora della vita all'altezza del proprio sogno, non scendere mai, neppure per qualche istante, dalla corda dell'immaginazione. In verità, il difficile è diventare funambolo della parola.”
“Scrivere è costruire la solitudine inaccessibile. Non la solitudine che arriva al lettore attraverso l’opera, ma l’altra, quella più profonda, quella dell’animale condannato a dialogare con se stesso, a riflettere da solo. Condannato ad oscillare tra l’entusiasmo puerile e la depressione trascinante.”
Source: Lo scrittore e l'altro
“Scrivere è ritrovare il passato, aprire una porta chiusa da tempo ed aspettare che qualcuno ci venga incontro.”
Source: mai canti di gioia
“Scrivere è un'articolazione raffinata del pensare.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Scrivere è un'occupazione solitaria. Avere qualcuno che crede in te fa una grande differenza.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Scrivere è un'occupazione solitaria. Avere qualcuno che crede in te fa una grande differenza. Non c'è bisogno che si lancino in orazioni. Di solito credere è già sufficiente.”
“Scrivere è una questione di dare, dare, dare, senza tregua.”
“Scrivi, racconta, ogni giorno sprecato è un delitto.”
Source: Che tu sia per me il coltello
“Scrivo aforismi perché ci sono in giro troppi deficienti e quindi devo pur far qualcosa per divertirmi.”
Source: Aforismi. Volume primo.
“Scrivo questa lettera per dire alla donna che ti ha strappato da me, da noi, che non ce l'ho più con lei. Perchè penso che sia già stata puntia abbastanza. E perchè, sì, l'ho odiata, insultata, immaginato di farle male, ma poi ho capito che la sua unica colpa è stata quella di credere all'amore, proprio come ho fatto io. Due donne che adesso potranno decidere di ignorare ogni cosa, oppure no. Che potranno proseguire con le loro vite, fingere per sempre, provare a smettere di chiedersi perchè. Oppure tentare di cavare il bene dal male. Abbiamo due figli con lo stesso padre. Potremo scegliere cosa fare di questo. Se restare chiuse nel rancore, in un dolore solo nostro, o provare a condividerlo e scoprire che, magari, i due dolori si somigliano.”
Source: Il rosmarino non capisce l'inverno
“Scrivo queste cose che mi piacerebbe succedessero a me. Guardate che un libro, di qualsiasi genere, è un’intervista non richiesta. Perché la scrittura è così, ti rivela.”
“Scroll through a list of books online, and you will find page after page after page of book covers with shirtless guys and titles that scream BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE! or ALPHA-MALE PARANORMAL WEREWOLF ROMANCE! or something equally ridiculous. All these shitty books look like clones of each other. There's not an original thought in sight.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“Scrooge instituted the initiation process for new members, as a way of weeding out those who were not ready. This was primarily done to toughen fellas up, for when they ended up in the hands of the police. We were having experiences where gang members who were being locked up couldn’t handle pressure. The next thing you know, they were pulling right up in the front of your door with the police. Franco ‘Co’ Bethel, former gang leader and right hand man to Scrooge.”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“Scrooge is no Marley, and Marley is no Scrooge, and their partnership is the better for it.”
“scrub oak trees. Kieran was leaning against him, pinning him to the tree, and they were kissing.
Cristina hesitated a moment, blood rising into her face, but it was clear Mark wasn’t being touched against his will. Mark’s hands were tangled in Kieran’s hair, and he was kissing him as fiercely as if he were starving. Their bodies were pressed together tightly; nevertheless, Kieran clutched at Mark’s waist, his hands moving restlessly, desperately, as if he could pull Mark closer still. They slid up, pushing Mark’s jacket off his shoulders, stroking the skin at the edge of his collar. He made a low keening sound, like a cry of grief, deep in his throat, and broke away.
He was staring at Mark, his gaze as hungry as it was hopeless. Never had a faerie looked so human to Cristina as Kieran did then. Mark looked back at him, eyes wide, shining in the moonlight. A shared look of love and longing and terrible sadness. It was too much. It had already been too much: Cristina knew she shouldn’t have been watching them but she hadn’t been able to stop, mingled shock and fascination rooting her to the spot.
And desire. There was desire, too. Whether for Mark, or for both of them, or just for the idea of wanting someone so much, she wasn’t sure. She moved back, her heart pounding, about to pull the”
Source: Lady Midnight
“Scrub your brain of any thoughts that don’t serve you, and to fill your mind with fresh, clean thinking that instills confidence, commitment, and ultimate success.”
Source: The Great Brain Cleanse
“Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.”
“Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.”
“Scrubby evergreen bushes released a strong scent of resin and honey; forests of pine gave way to gentle south-facing vineyards disturbed only by the ululation of early summer cicadas. Sitting up tall on the seat, she craned around eagerly to see what plants thrived naturally.
It was a wild and romantic place, Laurent de Fayols had written, the whole island once bought as a wedding gift to his wife by a man who had made his fortune in the silver mines of Mexico. One of three small specks in the Mediterranean known as the Golden Isles, after the oranges, lemons, and grapefruit that glowed like lamps in their citrus groves.
There were few reference works in English that offered information beyond superficial facts about the island, and those she had managed to find were old. The best had been published in 1880, by a journalist called Adolphe Smith. Ellie had been struck by the loveliness of his "description of the most Southern Point of the French Riviera":
'The island is divided into seven ranges of small hills, and in the numerous valleys thus created are walks sheltered from every wind, where the umbrella pines throw their deep shade over the path and mingle their balsamic odor with the scent of the thyme, myrtle and the tamarisk.”
Source: The Sea Garden
“Scrum does not tell you what to do; it helps to show what is going on. An intentionally incomplete framework like Scrum can never answer all your problems. How you enrich Scrum and make it your own is what matters. As you master Scrum, all the talk about Scrum should move to the background.”
Source: Driving Value with Sprint Goals: Humble Plans, Exceptional Results (Addison-Wesley Signature Series
“Scrum, in simple terms is managing a TO-DO list.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Scrum is about plotting your TO-DOs in calendar and ticking them off.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Scrum is either of two types, understanding what is required, or telling what is delivered.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Scrum is like a roundtable; with agenda, followed by minutes.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Scrum is like your mother-in-law, it points out ALL your faults.”
“Scrum refers to; orderly crowd or disorganized team.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Scrum дает нужную гибкость, чтобы быстро реагировать на меняющиеся условия рынка и давление со стороны конкурентов или внедрять новые идеи наших команд.”
Source: Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products That Customers Love
“Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.”
“Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.”
“Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.”
“Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life.”
“Scuba Blue offers a feeling of escape as it is reminiscent of a tropical ocean. This stirring and energizing shade takes us off to an exotic paradise that is pleasant and inviting, even if only a fantasy.”
“Scuba diving, from the beginning, had an air of dangerous allure. Every landlocked schoolboy knew of its intriguing hazards: the bends, which caused a diver's veins to fizz with carbonated blood until he died a ghastly, percolating death; and rapture of the deep, which took away his reason, filled his heart with false contentment, and drew him down into the ocean gloom.”
Source: Water and Light: A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef
“Scudder limpiaba la escopeta, transportaba una maleta, achicaba un bote, emigraba, hacía algo siempre, mientras que los señores, arrellanados en sus sillones, se dedicaban a buscar pecados en su alma.”
Source: Maurice
“Scudding is calming work, as it requires all of my attention to not let the knife slip. When I do it, I feel the steady purpose a cat must feel when bathing itself with its coarse tongue. Some of my most peaceful hours have been spent in this way. Outside there could be lightning, wars, or a festival and it would be all the same and nothing to me.”
Source: Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
“Scully and I have returned to perihelion. However long we remain in this warmth and light, I will not forget that it may once again pass someday. But it -we- will always return.”
Source: The X-Files: Perihelion
“Scully and I will be back to relieve you in eight hours if Tooms doesn't show,' Mulder promised. 'Right here.'
'You got it,' Kennedy said. Then he added in an undertone, 'Spooky.”
Source: Squeeze
“Scully could see that Mulder might be a nice guy. Well-meaning. Talented. With his heart in the right place.
But his head was definitely screwed on wrong.”
Source: X Marks the Spot
“Scully-'
'I screwed up.' Her hands again. 'Damnit, I screwed up.'
'Nope' [Mulder] said... 'If I was dead, then you would have screwed up.' She saw the grin. 'Then I'd have to haunt you.'
'Mulder that's not funny.'
'But you don't believe in ghosts and goblins...”
Source: The X-Files: Goblins
“Scully liked neatness and order. This office was her notion of a nightmare. She had no idea how Mulder ever found anything he wanted. But he always seemed to.”
Source: Darkness Falls
“Scully,' [Mulder] said, his voice quiet and serious, 'with the... unorthodox explanations I often find when studying the evidence, I know you're always skeptical-but every time you're at least fair to me. You respect my opinion, even when you don't agree with it.' He looked at his hands. 'I don't know if I've ever told you, but I really appreciate that.'
She looked at him and smiled. 'You've told me, Mulder. Maybe not in words... but you've told me.”
Source: The X-Files: Ruins
“Scully nodded. Of course. It made sense. Complete sense. No question about it. Mulder was perfectly sane in telling her all this. And she was perfectly sane in listening to it and nodding and urging him to tell her more. It was the rest of the world that was-
She doubled over as a wave of laughter hit her.
Mulder looked at her and started laughing too.
They stood there in the cemetery in the darkness and the drizzle, laughing their heads off.
'You know we're crazy,' Scully finally said.
'Of course we are,' Mulder gasped out.”
Source: X Marks the Spot
“Scully was doing the driving, which she preferred. Mulder knew only two speeds: fast and faster.”
Source: Darkness Falls
“Scully, you're a doctor, for God's sake. You gonna tell me you actually go along with this s---?' [said the Sheriff].
Mulder held his breath.
'Sheriff,' [Scully] answered in her most official, neutral voice. 'I have never known Mulder to be so far off-base that I would dismiss everything he says out of hand.'...
Thank you Scully, Mulder thought with a brief smile. I'd rather have a resounding 'Absolutely and how dare you,' but that'll do in a pinch.
On the other hand, the day that 'Absolutely and how dare you' actually came, it would probably kill him with amazement.”
Source: The X-Files: Whirlwind
“Scully zerknęła kątem oka na Muldera. Kiedy spał, wyglądał niewinnie i bezbronnie jak dziecko. Geniusz w opałach czy kłopotliwy szaleniec? Pozostało jej tylko czekać i obserwować.”
Source: X Marks the Spot
“Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.”
“Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.”
Source: The Onion Girl