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A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.
The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.
Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves. Emmett Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.745
I love to read, and TV seemed more like a good book, with these incredible series unfolding like chapters in a novel.
Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.
God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.
Graduation is not the conclusion of an achievement but simply the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another chapter
I've always been taught that life is a series of chapters, and it's all about moving forward and not carrying around baggage.
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.
Trump Entertainment Resorts declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Or as Donald Trump describes Chapter 11, "Back-to-back number ones!"
I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.
There's always a party ending every day but also a new one being made. They are just chapters in our lives, ending and beginning.
I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.
In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters three and 11.
I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.
We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.
I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'
Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now.
To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.
The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.
Any book that you're writing about your life, there are tough chapters that you've gotten through, you've survived them, and kind of closed them up.
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.
We like to say we hope to be like the Girl Scouts of technology, having many different chapters in many different states as well as many different countries.
The Bible is pregnant with politics. You cannot read the Bible from Genesis through Revelation and go through too many chapters that are not involving politics.
In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.
Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.
When I start a new novel, I often write 'test chapters' in different tenses and from different points of view in order to figure out which is best to tell the tale.
Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.
It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.
Blue' is actually my favorite chapter because it captures sadness more than the other chapters. That might sound weird but I've always been drawn to the rawest emotions.
When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.
Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.
I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'
Fortunately, at the end of every season, we close the chapter and start anew. That's the language of the series now, so it can organically come to a conclusion that we love.
Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.
When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They're like pictures of yourself in middle school. You're embarrassed to see them.
On the page, 'Gone Girl' was a literary game: a tennis match of alternating chapters from Nick and Amy, with the reader offering to take each character's side every few pages.
I'm afraid I'll lose myself in you, Gideon. I'm scared I'll lose the part of me I worked so hard to get back." "I'd never let that happen." he promised fiercely. Chapter 8, pg 140
I use a G-Pen from Zebra. Different people have different preferred pen nibs. I don't put much force on it when I draw, so I'll generally use a single nib for about three chapters.
I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
There's a whole chapter about my unfortunate manscaping accident. I was so focused on, "I've got to look this certain way and do this to be ready for this." So I missed out on a lot.
How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!
With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance.
I'm honored to donate my time as an ambassador for Blue Star Families, the largest nonprofit organization serving active duty service members and their families through chapters in the U.S.
I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.