![[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.](/assets/img/quote-photos/on-her-use-of-quotations-when-a-thing-has-been-said-so-well-that-it-could-not.jpg)
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writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. Carlos Fuentes
writing literature imagine
In literature, you know only what you imagine
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
writing littles needs
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
writing angel
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
writing order stories
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
writing ends dies
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
writing needs imagine
I need, therefore I imagine.
amber bill problem senate
The problem with the Senate Amber bill is that it doesn't do anything that isn't already being done, James Sensenbrenner
amber game last win
Wow. Unbelievable. The last thing we said before the game was, 'who is going to be the X factor?' We don't win that game without Amber Flynn tonight.
amber filled forced game great guard heart job nobody point poured taking unless
She poured her heart out. Amber did a great job for us. Nobody wanted our point guard position, but she filled in and did a great job taking it over. She hustles, she wouldn't come out of the game unless you forced her.
amber coming extra pressure relaxed stepped team
I was relaxed coming in and didn't feel any extra pressure. I don't feel any pressure with this team because Sheila (Adams) and Amber (Strong) have stepped up.
amber both defiance easy fallen fort hitting hunt pitching starting
I look to see Fort Defiance in the hunt this year, but that will not be an easy task. Pitching should be our strength, having both Amber Hoffman and Brittany Davidson back in the starting rotation. I don't think we've fallen off any in the hitting department.
amber days until
Two more days until Amber Frey's coming! Two more days until Amber Frey's coming!
amber brain cares chambers cream drain drinking fade fancies filled glass hilarious life thoughts time visions
Filled with mingled cream and amber I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chambers of my brain -- Quaintest thoughts -- queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today. Edgar Allan Poe
amber confidence defend hit last open player playing run sarah shooting shot soccer tonight
We are shooting well in practice, but not in games. Sarah shot well last year. She's shooting well in practice. It's just a confidence thing. She's a soccer player playing basketball. But tonight she did rebound, defend and run the floor. If she does those things, she doesn't have to score. And we know if we get Amber open for shots, she'll hit them.
amber gaze insects kept microscope remarkably
When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal. Hendrik Poinar
use infinite mathematics
I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics. Carl Friedrich Gauss
use born parasites
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. Charlotte Bronte
use ham radio
HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time. Charles Simonyi
use lord preacher
I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me. Charles Spurgeon
used
I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them. Brian Eno
use fuel feels
When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it. Diane von Furstenberg
use fronts
You don't have to just do what's planned, you can take what's immediately in front of you and use that. Dexter Fletcher
used composer stills
Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe. Dhani Harrison
use enjoy ifs
What use was money if you didn't have the time to enjoy it? Darren Shan