Heather Ormsby > Heather's Quotes

“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”
― Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“The really hard part isn't stepping off the boat; it's learning how to swim.”
― Jeff Goines

“We are the observers, and our writing makes us witnesses to what we have seen and learned about the human condition.”
― Heather Ormsby

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.”
― Paul Cézanne

“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
― Wittgenstein Ludwig

“His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

“The intellect is a great danger to creativity … because you begin to rationalize and make up reasons for things, instead of staying with your own basic truth – who you are, what you are, what you want to be. I’ve had a sign over my typewriter for over 25 years now, which reads “Don’t think!” You must never think at the typewriter – you must feel. Your intellect is always buried in that feeling anyway. … The worst thing you do when you think is lie — you can make up reasons that are not true for the things that you did, and what you’re trying to do as a creative person is surprise yourself — find out who you really are, and try not to lie, try to tell the truth all the time. And the only way to do this is by being very active and very emotional, and get it out of yourself — making things that you hate and things that you love, you write about these then, intensely.”
― Ray Bradbury