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“I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.”

Way Wells Book Ideas Stories Inspiration Found Gone Our Lives Influence Events Particular News Plot

Author:Michael Koryta

“Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.”

Writing Years Mind Littles Ends Loses Novel Gone Seven Accomplish Thirty Seven Years Seventh Birthday

Author:Akhil Sharma

“I don't know, I think that if I had any regrets, that would cancel out the great people that I have in my life. All the tough stuff that I've gone through that I don't wish on no one else has brought a beautiful community to me.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Beautiful Wish Stuff Community Gone Regret Tough Great People

Author:Lemon Andersen

“You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.”

Looks Gone Shapes Mirrors Driving Vans Rearview Mirror Driving On

Author:Jonathan Evison

“It's gone on my whole life, this David and Goliath syndrome that a lot of these smaller guys always have. They think the only reason I've ever had any success in my career is because of my physical size. And you know what? If that's the case, so be it. I really don't care. Because I have that size.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Reason Whole Care Guy Careers Cases Gone Size Don't Care Whole Life What If Syndromes Goliath

Author:Kevin Nash

“I dont see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.”

Different Opportunity Gone Nurse Maids Filipino Labourers

Author:Miguel Syjuco

“When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If Katri came in, they were quiet and waited for her to leave. The back door would close, and Katri would have gone. “Does your sister read our books?” Anna wanted to know. “No. She reads literature.”

Ifs Knows Doe Book Wanted Reading Literature Talking Gone Doors Drink Quiet Evening Tea Kitchen Anna Back Doors

Book:The True Deceiver

Source: The True Deceiver

“When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.”

Feels Shows Gone Like You Pressure Caught Storm Staggering Jackals

Author:Steven Bochco

“Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.”

Gone Bottom Favors Bells Shelter Fallouts

Author:Irwin Redlener

“Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!”

Moments Faces Form Certain Rooms Gone Figures Shadow Mirrors Casts Surface Touched Chairs Spokes Over It Footsteps Spooky Gliding

Book:Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales

Source: Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales

“For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them.”

Years Long Stills Hands Girl Gone Growing Fields Flower Hair Long Time Dresses Village Bosoms Sweetest Stains Berries Spooky Too Deep

Book:Christmas Books

Source: Christmas Books

“"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"”

Love Should Littles Made Said Done Enough Poor Break Gone Teaching Fool Bird Forgiving Train Notes Aunt Forgive Me Deluded Caged God Forgives Caged Birds God Forgive Me

Book:David Copperfield

Source: David Copperfield

“As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.”

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“"Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?"”

Humans Mean Children Christian Funny Church Human Beings Gone Missing Humorous Indignation Christian Church

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone...all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as the ever-cooling background. At that time, space travel will no longer provide refuge because even Hell will have frozen over. We may then declare that the universe has died-not with a bang, but with a whimper.”

Years May Universe Stars Space Gone Hell Died Backgrounds Cosmos Refuge Frozen Extinction Bangs Temperature Space Travel Cooling All Stars

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.”

Ifs Looks Gone Century Institutions

Author:Theodore Zeldin

“The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.”

People Thinking Knows Feels Persons Long Gone Disease Unique Losing Loved Ones

Author:Patti Davis

“It’s irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. What they think of me after I’m dead and gone in one generation will be determined by researchers who do PhDs on me, right? So there will be a lot of revisionism. As people revised Stalin, Brezhnev and one day now Yeltsin, and later on Putin. I’ve lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you’re dead.”

People Thinking Knows May Long Enough Young Gone Generations One Day Determined Irrelevant Putin Researchers Think Of Me Hard Truths Phds Revisionism Brezhnev

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.”

“Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller.”

“The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.”

Left Gone Idealism

Author:Paullina Simons

“If the Savior had come back to earth at the beginning of the fifth century A.D., I doubt whether he would have recognized the Christian Church as the one that claimed descent from that which he had established, so far had it gone astray.”

Ifs Earth Christian Church Gone Doubt Century Savior Fifth Descent Christian Church

Author:Milton R. Hunter

“Don't be afraid to go against the current, when they want to steal our hope, when they propose rotten values to us, values like food that has gone bad-and when food has gone bad it makes us sick, these values make us sick. We have to go against the current! And you, young people, be the first: Go against the grain and be proud of going against the grain. Go on, be brave and go against the current! And be proud of doing it!”

People Want Firsts Young Values Gone Goes On Proud Sick Brave Currents Stealing Grain Be Proud Be Brave Propose Rotten

Author:Pope Francis

“My secretary stopped and got gas (Wednesday) for $2.67. (Yesterday at) the same gas station, she got gas again. It was $3.12, ... It has really gotten very, very restrictive to people. It's really hurting. ... My impression, of course, is that they have certainly gone up more than they should have.”

People Should Courses Hurt Gone Should Have Yesterday Impression Gas Stations Secretary Wednesday Gas Stations

Author:Andrew Spano

“By the time I'm old and retired I'm hoping to contribute enough that people can take this piece and run with it then others, such as the college students that are participating on this can take off and finish out the mission when I'm long gone”

People Long Enough Running Gone Pieces Students College Missions Retired Participating College Students

Author:Tim Samaras

“We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.”

“I have gone to the forest.”

Author:Knut Hamsun

“I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.”

Knows Humans Different Country Earth Form Purpose My Own Quality Gone Human Nature Travel Spread Foreign Countries Human Qualities

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively.”

Way Has Beens Soul Feelings Desire Gone Seeing Conscious Unconscious Recognizing Kindles Revive Desire To Live

Book:Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship

Source: Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship

“There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.”

Ifs Different Matter Hard Voice Pay Gone Subjects Taste Approach Exciting Gates Restriction Subject Matter Admission Gatekeepers Different Voices

Author:Bill Watterson

“Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.”

Way Trying Different Helping Gone My Way Different Directions

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I mean the whole economy just comes to a grinding halt. Competence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. Indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing you think about. And the oxygen has been sucked out of the credit markets.”

Thinking Years Mean Has Beens Whole Economy Gone Five Minutes Institutions Credit Indispensable Oxygen Five Minutes Competence Halt

Author:Howard Warren Buffett

“The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the animals assisting us; we are also assisting the animals.”

Thinking Humans Animal Consciousness Gone Assisting

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.”

Ifs Humans Form Suffering Levels Gone Share Havens Empathy Dissolving Human Form

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a Gone with the Wind 2.”

Ifs Has Beens Gone Wind Pages Diesel Facebook Page

Author:Vin Diesel

“I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.”

Made Gone Comedy Dignity Secure Retiring

Author:Megan Mullally

“A good film to me is like lightning in a bottle. I used to think that meant hit and run. But then I've changed my definition about what lightning in a bottle means. I think it means that you wait for that surprising moment that you really didn't expect would happen, as good as it may have gone in rehearsal.”

Thinking May Mean Moments Happens Running Film Used Waiting Gone Changed Definitions Bottles Surprising Lightning Rehearsal Good Films I've Changed

Author:Don Scardino

“I can't cook, at all. I would not know how to make coffee. I took cooking classes, so I know how to make chocolate soufflé, but ask me if I want to make soufflé. I let somebody else make the chocolate soufflé, and I eat it. I found that, when I took cooking classes and tried to cook, I didn't want to eat it. The joy was gone. I was always filthy with the stuff, and then had to clean it up. I don't like that.”

Ifs Knows Want I Can Joy Asks Found Stuff Class Know How Gone Cooking Clean Coffee Cooks Ask Me Chocolate Filthy Cooking Classes

Author:Barbra Streisand

“No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.”

Problem Gone Planets No Hope

Author:John Cleese

“When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us.”

Giving Trying Humans Long Able Grows Human Beings Audience Gone Subjects Serious Credit Serious Subjects

Author:Prince

“It's very important to remain optimistic and to see the silver lining in everything you do. Because no matter how sometimes things look difficult, and look like there is no hope, there is always a small glimmering of silver lining that is in everything, and I always look for that, and hang on that, and before I know it, another day comes and is gone.”

Knows Looks Important Sometimes Matter Difficult Gone Optimistic Silver No Hope Another Day

Author:Wangari Maathai

“When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be overwhelming, in the same sense that it could be overwhelming if you try to fulfil everyone's expectations rather than the people closest to you in the creative process, be it your director, or fellow actors and the writers. So, that's kind of it - I try to trick myself into believing that no one has ever gone there before.”

People Ifs Trying Believe Kind Persons Actors Process Gone Creative Imagine Seeing Directors Expectations Fellows Tricks Overwhelming Imagine That Creative Process Closest

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.”

Ifs Knows Enough Wanted Sound Acting Careers Gone Lucky Inspired Musical Hobbies End Times New Age Spend Time

Author:Justin Timberlake

“When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger.”

People Knows World Want Should Years Home Suffering Gone Months Mark Stranger Nine Coming Home Do You Know Closest Nine Months Estrangement

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I really have very little aspirations about acting because I think that probably the best things have come and gone. I would like to focus on writing and directing. I love writing and directing even though writing can be incredibly painful and lonely. I get great satisfaction from doing it.”

Thinking Writing Littles Acting Gone Focus Lonely Painful Satisfaction Best Things Aspiration

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.”

Way States Light Happiness Joy Enjoy Darkness Gone Please Deserve Delight Treated Deep Down Degradation Plunge

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone”

Purpose Causes Loss Gone Homely

Author:William Wordsworth

“To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.”

Men Book Soul Struggle Gone Mystery Flower Seeds Every Man

Book:Introductions and Reviews

Source: Introductions and Reviews

“When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.”

World Philosophy Gone Youth Ideals Philosophical Paint Grey Abstraction Reconciliation Freshness Ideal World

Book:On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy: Introductory Lectures

Source: On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy: Introductory Lectures

“A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.”