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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Rebecca West
Communication
Writing
Mind
Nothing
Only
Between
Parts
Person
Different
Different Parts
Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Those
Sincere
Most
Vow
Least
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Good
Gardening
Miracles
Over
Around
Does
Spread
Heap
Fertilizer
Little
Works
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Time
You
Courage
Remember
Meet
Everything
Polished
Antagonist
Same
Same Time
Manner
Mild
Your
Agreeable
Keen
Sword
We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.
Robbie Keane
Great
World
Sense
Our
Spirit
Taken
Great Sense
Cup
Us
Togetherness
Team
Team Spirit
World Cup
Sometimes, you need different things in life, you need different challenges that will give you that little boost.
Robbie Keane
Life
You
Challenges
Sometimes
Will
Boost
Give
Different
Little
Different Things
Things
Need
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Robert Graves
Good
People
Say
About
Shakespeare
Spite
Remarkable
He
Very
Really
Who
Thing
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
Robert Graves
Poet
Rather
Condition
Than
Profession
Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.
Robert Wilson Lynd
You
Too Much
Too
See
Likeable
Most
Quite
Human
Human Beings
Them
Much
Beings
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Robert Wilson Lynd
War
Dangerous
Ancient
Possibility
Most
Human
Short
Decisive
Appears
Belief
Illusions
I think that 'Little Angels' provides the gateway into that conversation about faith and about the Lord and about God's love for us. Remembering that the angels are just the messengers and the message is the message of love.
Roma Downey
Love
God
Faith
Conversation
Think
About
Angels
Remembering
Message
Lord
Provides
Just
Little
Us
Gateway
Pausing between stimulus and response allows you to show up in your life.
Roma Downey
Life
You
Response
Between
Stimulus
Up
Pausing
Your
Show
I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.
Rory McIlroy
Work
Myself
Day
Home
Family
Whatever
Able
Point
Never
Takes
Know
Look
Make
Another
Another Day
Least
Repay
Close
Did
Being
Wanted
After
Them
Dad
Mum
Mum And Dad
I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
Sam Neill
Enjoy
Cold
Latter
Dinosaur
Physical
Some
More
Scene
Take
Generally
Had
Between
Stuff
Drowned
Terribly
Comfortable
Laboratory
Wet
Eggs
Being
Where
Warmer
Choice
Raining
Playing
My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.
Samantha Power
Thought
Every
Ways
Out
Has-Been
Instinctive
Well
Been
Quite
Impulsive
Literally
Choice
Many
Career
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
Samuel Beckett
Good
Day
Memories
Old
Down
Too
Other
Chronicle
Worst
One Day
Recognize
Bad
Able
Only
Unchanging
He
Days
Like
Gently
His
Die
Any
Little
Should
Reason
Grow
Right
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
Samuel Beckett
Life
Myself
Book
Beginning
Pencil
About
Write
Longer
Him
Another
Exercise
Same
Just
Whose
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
Samuel Beckett
Analyzer
Synthesizer
Out
Could
He
Joyce
Am
Leave
Trying
James
James Joyce
Much
Bring
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Samuel Beckett
Me
Together
Wonderful
Thought
First
Believe
Worms
Earth
Something
Drift
Shall
Through
Perhaps
Cliff
Surface
End
Just
In The End
Then
Acre
Separate
Sea
Ton
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Samuel Beckett
People
Our
How
How Many People
Saints
Boast
Much
Many
Appointment
Kept
'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.
Saoirse Ronan
Love
You
Become
Love Story
Back
Classic
Something
Another
Glued
Juliet
Get
Trying
Romantic
Story
Romeo
Romeo And Juliet
Lovers
Fiercely
Separated
Two
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
Seamus Heaney
Feelings
Imagination
Sin
Faking
Against
Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.
Sean O'Casey
You
Happy
Money
Nerves
Make
Does
I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?
Shane MacGowan
Time
Out
Costello
Could
Putting
Been
Mean
Many
Here
Albums
The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so used to wars that the psychiatric wing of the RAMC are planning how to break the news to the men when the war is over.
Spike Milligan
Life
War
News
Men
Every
Unless
Way
Wing
Soon
Over
Becoming
How
Getting
Stop
Psychiatric
Break
Used
Planning
Wars
Lunacy
Every Chance
Chance
We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping... If war was a game of cards, I'd say someone was cheating.
Spike Milligan
War
Game
Cheating
Feeling
Thinking
Thirty
Markers
Say
Alive
Hoping
Someone
He
Days
Come
Private
Wooden
Across
Graves
Cards
Fourteen
Number
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