Gossip Quote by Ouida Download Open image “A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.” — Ouida ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gossip Hands Oil Running Stories Wheels
Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps. — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
“I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
With this particular series [The Cursed Wheel] I'm going farther in that direction than I've tried before in terms of the elasticity of the… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
“I have been run over by the speeding chariot of fate, caught up in its spiked wheels." - "I hate it when that happens,"… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets… — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“She used to imagine her parents and happy endings she would never have. Now she envisioned torments that were all too real. She pictured… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
“In the beginning the stories were long and colored, but as he grew old and his eyes clouded, the stories were told in only a few words, and she came to understand that all the colors had fallen away from him, leaving only the moments. A woman who performed tricks in the air, an animal pulling a boat under water,… — Pete Dexter Copy Share
“A story is like a machine with numerous gears: it should contain no gear that doesn't turn something” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Most of my stories are not nice ones, their heroic aspects dimmed by the fact that the hand which struck me was my own.… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“If the characters are not wicked, the book is." We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“write the story. push your hands into the dirtiest parts of yourself. take the rot & decay & turn it into nourishment & life.… — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women… — Ouida Copy Share Image
When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld! — Ouida Copy Share
There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough,… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness… — Ouida Copy Share
Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes,… — Ouida Copy Share Image
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married. — Ouida Copy Share Image
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery;… — Ouida Copy Share
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“She was the goddess of gossip and rumor, not the goddess of thoroughly fact-checked information. Some people, Principal Zeus included, didn't seem to realize… — Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams Copy Share Image
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Behind every word flows energy. If you use your words to gossip or babble about what you are going to do before you do… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My mum, Olwen, was a bright and talkative woman who loved a gossip and a story and was given slightly to malapropisms. And she… — David Jason Copy Share Image
I went straight from high school to 'Gossip Girl,' and both were very structured, scheduled environments, so I never had freedom to explore and… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
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