Belart Wright > Belart's Quotes

“Those who don't build must burn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“But stones, too, can lie.”
― Amy Hennig

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Death is not the only possible outcome.”
― Amy Hennig

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Vivian Greene

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
― Ira Glass

“...that was Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner LIfe and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83...If a Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Weren't Worried Before, You Better Hurry Up and Start 'Cause You're Already Running Late.”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy

“Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know--Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers. You Never Can Tell Who Might Be Kin to That Person or Who Might Be a Lip-Flapping, Big-Mouth Spy.”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy

“No sir, I don't know why, but my eyes don't cry no more.”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy

“Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

“Joe was so tired that he had slept through first hour Spanish, second hour history, and most of third hour English. The English teacher, Mrs. Lane, hadn't taken a liking to that. She decided to send Joe to the principal to discuss why he was so sleepy, which Joe hadn't taken a liking to.”
― Belart Wright, Average Joe and the Extraordinaires

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.”
― Belart Wright

“as if the world was turning, its center shifting swiftly to the point where she was standing, her”
― Alexandra Engellmann, All for One

“Given the choice, whether to rule a corrupt and failing empire; or to challenge the fates for another throw - a better throw - against one's destiny... what was a king to do? But does one even truly have a choice? One can only match, move by move, the machinations of fate... and thus defy the tyrannous stars.”
― Amy Hennig