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LEE GUTKIND The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO![]()
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD![]()
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS![]()
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD![]()
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI![]()
The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR![]()
Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is present...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR أحياناً نقود أنفسنا للطريق المهلك علماً بذلك .. ليس رغب�...
MS.CANDY![]()
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif...
JANE AUSTEN![]()
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD We are dedicated to seeing that his writings live. I was knocked out by his poetry and fiction writi...
JAMES PERKINS In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in
such a compromising posi...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET![]()
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD![]()
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble...
ELEANOR CATTON![]()
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to...
EDWARD HIRSCH Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, “There sh...
DOROTHY B. HUGHES Romance is like having to go through security at airports in order to get on the plane.
BOBBY W. MILLER You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE![]()
Great characters- They are pivotal for a great plot. THEN a solid plot: Why then? If you do not have...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER By embracing a label such as 'non-fiction,' the creative writing community has signaled to t...
JOHN D'AGATA One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.
“Writing for te...
L.L. BARKAT Je choisis des mots simples et concrets... J'essaie de faire des phrases courtes et j'évite les inv...
JACQUES POULIN Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN![]()
Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI![]()
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD![]()
Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY![]()
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not t...
LANGSTON HUGHES To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL![]()
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN![]()
In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER![]()
There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN![]()
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI![]()
Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER![]()
My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
ABHIJIT NASKAR What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also ...
TRACY KIDDER![]()
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have...
PETER DE VRIES Don't just read to read. Read to understand.
JILL TELFORD![]()
In Hollywood, no one knows anything.
WILLIAM GOLDMAN![]()
Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY![]()
I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the autho...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI![]()
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF Because I want to be remembered.
SHERMAN ALEXIE One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
DEBORAH EISENBERG In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW![]()
Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN![]()
Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN![]()
If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE![]()
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN![]()
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE![]()
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA![]()
Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN![]()
I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But...
ELLEN POTTER If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON
LEE GUTKIND The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO
To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its... FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is present... FLANNERY O'CONNOR أحياناً نقود أنفسنا للطريق المهلك علماً بذلك .. ليس رغب�...
MS.CANDY
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif... JANE AUSTEN
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD We are dedicated to seeing that his writings live. I was knocked out by his poetry and fiction writi...
JAMES PERKINS In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in
such a compromising posi...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble...
ELEANOR CATTON
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to... EDWARD HIRSCH Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, “There sh...
DOROTHY B. HUGHES Romance is like having to go through security at airports in order to get on the plane.
BOBBY W. MILLER You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE
Great characters- They are pivotal for a great plot. THEN a solid plot: Why then? If you do not have... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER By embracing a label such as 'non-fiction,' the creative writing community has signaled to t...
JOHN D'AGATA One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.
“Writing for te...
L.L. BARKAT Je choisis des mots simples et concrets... J'essaie de faire des phrases courtes et j'évite les inv...
JACQUES POULIN Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN
Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not t... LANGSTON HUGHES To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN
In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER
There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN
if it doesn't come bursting out of youin spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Ah, much deluded! lay asideThy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER
My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society. ABHIJIT NASKAR What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also ...
TRACY KIDDER
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have... PETER DE VRIES Don't just read to read. Read to understand.
JILL TELFORD
In Hollywood, no one knows anything. WILLIAM GOLDMAN
Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the autho... E.A. BUCCHIANERI
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF Because I want to be remembered.
SHERMAN ALEXIE One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
DEBORAH EISENBERG In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW
Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person. JEFFREY FRY We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN
Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ... STEPHANIE KLEIN
If you're confused about what to do,it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be... AL GOLDSTEIN
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T... THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS...
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p... EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But...
ELLEN POTTER If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over... 
If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life. 
You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it&... 
In sports, teams win and individuals don't. 
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. 
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure. 