Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. - African proverb

I like that!

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the rest of the world calls a butterfly. - Richard Bach Sorry this one is so late in the evening. Hope everyone's had a good weekend. :)

I hope you don't mind me throwing one in...but this is exactly why I thought I wanted to be a writer when I was a little girl: I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.--Sandra Cisneros

That's awesome!! :)

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. - Nikos Kazantzakis And a bonus Valentine's day quote :) Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao-Tzu

"Candy is dandy, but liqour is quicker" (Ogden Nash) -- I felt it most appropriate on this, valentine's day. WINK.

LOL! That's great :D I've not heard that in a long time! :)

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams

Methinks that I must truly be 'creative' and someday I will meet 'art'? WINK.

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain

"The most valuable writing habit I have is not to answer questions about my writing habits." Christopher Morley

That's never a problem for me, answering questions about my writing habits, that is. I don't know what the heck I'm doing so I can't, and don't have to, explain to anyone. WINK.

My pen is at the bottom of a page, Which, being finished, here the story ends; 'Tis to be wished it had been sooner done, But stories somehow lengthen when begun. -- Byron

The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." - Paul Dirac

Thank you dialyn!! I've had some stuff pop up this week I wasn't expecting at work. But soon, that won't be trouble anymore. :) I'll get back to it tomorrow I promise. :)

Always glad to help you out. :)

Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd. From the I Ching

Well then, it surely appears that TallPockets is on the verge of upcoming brilliance? WINK.

"Twas the woman who drove me to drink. It was the best thing she ever did for me". WINK. (W.C. Fields).

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. Mae West

"One is only as good as One's Leaders....and that is why I am hopeless"... A Self Quote :]

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." - Marilyn Vos Savant

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. - Will Rogers

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. - Robert Heinlein [Sorry, I had to add this additional one, as it made me giggle]

Writing is hard--it's a form of punishment in school, and rightly so--and I stood paralyzed before all the different ways this simple message might be put.

Charles Portis, Gringos

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. Anne Lamott-Bird By Bird: Instructions On Writing and Life P.S. good book by the way~

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. - Edward Everett Hale

"Everyone gets up the mountain to a certain point - The world would operate much better if we all felt at peace in our own 'base camp' - Not everyone plants the flag". (Comedian, Dennis Miller).

James Thurber: "With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs."

"I am not a Yes Man ...I am not even a Man!" Quote THC.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new. - Samuel Johnson

"It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead." No source given.

Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant - Winston Churchill

"Is that a Banana in Your Pocket...or are You just happy to see Me?"..... Mae West

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars. - Les Brown

"Youth is wasted on the young". (?)

"Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself." - James Stephens

"Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to open one's mouth, and remove all doubt" (?) Sure wish I'd have listened to that one SO many times. WINK.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. - Honore De Balzac