Albert Camus Quotes

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

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• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Look
  • Embrace
  • Fresh

• Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Dream
  • Acting
  • Ability

• There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Decision

• It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Couple
  • Years
  • Flight

• I used to be into Bjork and PJ Harvey, and they used to blow my mind. But there hasn't been a pop star blowing anybody's mind.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Mind
  • Star
  • Blow

• Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

  

  Philip Schaff
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Jesus

• I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Up
  • School
  • Wonder

• Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Bigs
  • Vacation

• Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Children
  • Too Much
  • Ruined

• America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Years
  • President

• I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Water
  • Jump
  • Stills

• Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Thinking
  • Speak
  • Promise

• I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Color
  • Hell
  • Paradise

• It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Doubt
  • Judgment

• Matthew once said to me, after one of my more finely worded rants about stupid people who have the wrong opinions, "Nadia, the thing that sucks is that every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it." Damn.

  

  Nadia Bolz-Weber
  • People
  • Jesus
  • Judgment

• I am a morning person and start work, whether composing, rehearsing, preparing syllabi/tests, or proofing an article or manuscript, early in the morning before the flood of e-mails, phone calls and disturbances, usually by my four cats! I like to do projects that I can become passionate about - women in the arts and mentoring students. Like all of us, if we enjoy what we are doing, it's not work, and we might even get paid for it!

  

  Barbara Harbach
  • Enjoy
  • Composing
  • Manuscript

• Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Judgment
  • Wait
  • Take Place