Zane Quotes

You cannot grow more hours in the day. However, you can make better use of those hours.

Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.

A wig is a wig is a wig.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

With me it's always about first impressions.

I paint abstract expressions.

What is the one bright spot on the entire horizon that would give someone an opportunity to be retrained to learn new skills? Direct selling.

In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today.

Remember, if God doesn't give you what you want, that's because it's not what you need.

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitiate, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.

I trust my instincts.

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

We have to take care of the moment and then move on to the next. We can't worry about what's to come.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert

Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

My best evenings are at home with my lady.

Personal wealth is the by-product of making the world a better place.

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity.

Unlike every other retirement vehicle, such as IRAs and 401(k)s, you receive a tax deduction for making contributions to your HSA but don't have to pay income taxes on withdrawals.

This scene may disturb you, so you have to pay attention.

I have butterflies in my stomach.

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

I love my work but do not know how I write it.

Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

Don’t worry, Miss Brielle. To be honest, the ones with a little bit of crazy have always been my favorite.

Face it, friends. For this journey, roads are optional.

Zane sighed. Jovan and Mother were just the same. “Maybe later” meant no.

Zane was pretty sure that worries and bossing were related, like a pair of old aunties.

Oh. Sure. It makes perfect sense. Zane is a wolf because his father is an eagle.

They say that to live in the Wilds, you have to be half-wild yourself. Or at least very brave. And Zane is both.

Do you mean that Zane is some kind of bird magnet?

Our thoughts are so powerful! Be careful what you think!If people only realized how powerful this concept is, they would never allow a negative thought to take space inside their minds.

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

Pride would never be her ally.