“Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they'll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.” KnowsWritingFirstsMeanEndsAbleStuffLevelsQualityProjectsGoldWeightAgentsEditorsFiltersSlush Author:Tim Lebbon
“It's a level of strength and character that few of us can imagine; a grace under pressure that few of us will ever attain. It's why an Olympic gold medal would not have made us love or admire her more.” MadeCharacterLevelsGraceImagineGoldPressureAdmireMedalGold MedalsUnder PressureGrace Under Pressure Author:Peggy Fleming
“We can tell the general public that the gold and foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank are not designed to finance the economy, but rather to ensure foreign trade turnover. Therefore, we need this level to be able to provide the necessary foreign trade turnover for such an economy as Russia's for a period of at least three months.” NeedsAbleThreeLevelsEconomyMonthsPeriodsGoldTradeRussiaFinanceCurrencyReservesThree MonthsCentral BanksGeneral PublicTurnoverForeign Trade Author:Vladimir Putin
“If everything stops functioning our level will be able to ensure our trade turnover using its gold and foreign currency reserves for at least six months or more, which is more than enough.” IfsEnoughAbleLevelsMonthsSixGoldTradeCurrencyReservesSix MonthsTurnover Author:Vladimir Putin
“Therefore today we have an absolutely sufficient level of gold and foreign currency reserves in order to ensure economic stability and sustainable foreign trade turnover.” TodayOrderLevelsEconomicGoldTradeSufficientStabilityCurrencyReservesTurnoverEconomic StabilityForeign Trade Author:Vladimir Putin
“Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.” LanguageLevelsLordProtectGoldSacredRingsBowsEnglish LanguageLike Something Author:Lynne Truss
“There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.” IfsInspirationalFallPassionNaturalLevelsMistakeEasierEternalDevilAngelGoldStrongerAffectionRefuseCorruptionConversionHeavenlyAppetiteMistakenClayEternal LoveBrassGreat Divorce Author:C. S. Lewis
“Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.” WarHandsValuesDiesPerfectLevelsResourcesGoldUniversalMediumsPreservesSilverCoinsRelianceGold And Silver Book:The Life and Writings of ... Source: The Life and Writings of ...