Long Quote by Peter Elbow Download Open image “The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?” — Peter Elbow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Long Unheard Willing Writing
If you asked me how long I'll love you, my answer would be I don't know. Only because I don't know which is longer… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is the acceptable length of time before you change your life to be with the person you love? A day was all I… — Kerry Heavens Copy Share Image
1 minute, 1 hour, 1 day, 1 month, 1 year .. no matter how long, I'll still be waiting for you ! — Jaypee Copy Share Image
It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms, often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion but because it failed in the… — Jane Rule Copy Share
“The real reason that language so often carries magic is because humans have trouble not ascribing special power to it. Language makes so many… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
“The real reason that language so often carries magic is because humans have trouble not ascribing special power to it.” — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out,… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it. — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
“I've come to suspect that whenever any ability is difficult to learn and rarely performed well, it's probably because contraries are called for -… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words. — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I… — Margaret Cho Copy Share
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
