Quotations
I like to collect quotations that I think are cool or that speak to me in some way. Before I sold my first book, I used to include a quote at the bottom of each email as a signature. Now, of course, my signature line is my current and upcoming books. I'm on a board, though, that's very small and intimate and they know me and when my books are coming out, so I use a quote there. Right now, I'm posting with:
So my plan for today's blog post is to share some of the quotes I've seen online and share them. And yes, that means I couldn't come up with anything particularly interesting to say today and I'm relying on other people. :-)
There you go, some thoughts for the day. :-) Now I have to go get ready for my chapter meeting. I missed September, so I'd like to get to this month's gathering.
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." - Aldous HuxleyI'm not using that quote because I feel negative, I'm using it because I find the concept intriguing. And wouldn't it make an interesting story premise? I have no ideas or plans to use it, at least not right now, but it still makes me wonder what if?
So my plan for today's blog post is to share some of the quotes I've seen online and share them. And yes, that means I couldn't come up with anything particularly interesting to say today and I'm relying on other people. :-)
"Everyone has a talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."--Erica Jong
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. " - Charles Buxton
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." ~Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)~
"The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory." --Chinese Proverb
"Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120%, somebody else will." --Ron Blomberg, baseball player
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." --Goethe
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will." --Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of India
"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person." -- P. J. O'Rourke
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
There you go, some thoughts for the day. :-) Now I have to go get ready for my chapter meeting. I missed September, so I'd like to get to this month's gathering.
posted by Patti O'Shea at 8:16 AM
Patti, had to smile at your first quote. It would make an interesting premise. Sylvia Browne swears this planet called Earth, is the toughest school out there. In her own words, it's what hell actually is. She was talking about light and dark forces, vying for attention, prominence. Thought provoking, and verra, verra intersting!
LaDonna,
That is really interesting. I have to agree about Earth being a tough school, but look how much we have the opportunity to learn and grow.
BTW, my next book is about a group of magic users who fight the dark forces to protect humans. :-) Interesting timing on that as well.
Patti
I need a title, Patti! Sounds like my kinda book. Also, you're so right. I like to this of this place as the higher education playground! lol.
Can we spell think? duh...I like to THINK of this place as the higher education playground. LOL.
LaDonna,
In the Midnight Hour is scheduled to come out August 2007. When a troubleshooter for a society of magic users rescues a private investigator from a dark spell, she finds more than an ally as she faces down her former mentor.
This book is something I so wanted to write, and it was rejected almost everywhere so it took two years between the time I wrote the proposal until the time I could pick the story back up again.
And yep, this is definitely higher education. :-) I wish I could see the bright colors that I've heard our spirits are festooned with because of our work here. I bet that would be cool. Of course, I'm the same person who freaked out when I saw one of my guides, so I don't think I'll be seeing anything for a while. :-/
Patti
Okay, Patti, you can't say something like that and leave me hanging. I've wanted to "see" a guide, angel, aura, anything! We must CHAT here. Me thinks we have alot in common. LOL.
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