Quotes

by K. Ross Writing is tricky. Trying to express your meaning clearly can be hard enough, but also making it engaging can be quite the balancing act. As a writer, I’m still working on it, but as an editor, ill-considered or lazy writing jumps off the page at me like a facehugger from […] via What… Continue reading What Words to Avoid in Your Writing — A Writer’s Path

“Sheltering in place works like this: You don’t give it to anyone — You don’t get it from anyone. Common sense. No?” Tom Hanks, actor, twitter post March 17, 2020 via “We are all in this together. Flatten the curve” — Art of Quotation

So let me get this straight: the Trump administration is willing to hand out $500B to corporations to save executives, but isn’t willing to spend $1 billion on more ventilators to save the American people? Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley […]… Continue reading “So let me get this straight: the Trump administration is willing to hand out $500B to corporations to save executives, but isn’t willing to spend $1 billion on more ventilators to save the American people?” — Art of Quotation

Any personal advice on what might help with isolation? A sense of humor. There’s all this nonsense about loo paper. There’s two very funny videos. Apparently one is of a man sitting on his loo and a dog comes in and steals the loo roll. And then there’s another of a different man sitting on […]… Continue reading “ During all of this we have to keep a sense of humor. “ — Art of Quotation

Right smack dab in the middle of town I found a paradise that’s trouble-proof And if this world starts getting you down There’s room enough for two up on the roof songwriters: Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Recorded in 1962 by The Drifters. “Up on the Roof” is a song written by Gerry Goffin and […]… Continue reading “When this old world starts getting me down and people are just too much for me to face / I climb way up to the top of the stairs and all my cares just drift right into space” — Art of Quotation

“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity.” Dorothea Tanning, painter via “Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity.” — Art of Quotation

“I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction” Saul Bellow, writer via “I feel that art… Continue reading “I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos… an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.” — Art of Quotation

“No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.” Jacque Fresco, author, activist via “No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.” — Art of Quotation

Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life. Bernard Williams, English, philosopher via “Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life.” — Art of Quotation

“We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions occur weekly. In ancient Greek the word “chaos” means “gaping void” or “yawning emptiness.” The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms […]… Continue reading “…when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions occur weekly…. The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art and cinema.” — Art of Quotation