Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.
– Michael J Kannengieser
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- What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we transmit. – HG Wells
- [On doors of opportunity] If that door doesnt open, Dont worry. It was probably best you got locked out than be locked in. Move on the next door. – Janna Cachola
- When you believe you’ve become the best writer you can be-¦ you still aren’t. – Michael J Kannengieser
- I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way. – Michael J Kannengieser
- In democracy, our most important tool is to vote. But our power tool is when we have the power to influence others on who to vote for. – Ben Tolosa
- Your mind is a wonderful tool for creating what your soul wants. Use the tool, don’t let it use you. – Dan O Donnell
- Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. – Billy Graham
- You cannot build a complete memory with a single memory tool any more than you can build a complete building with a single carpentry tool. – Kenneth L Higbee
- Shed the tears.Shed the blame and guilt too.So that your heart mends and heals. – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
- Common sense is a tool that isn’t in everyone’s shed. – Tanya Masse
- I have a sack of hate mail that I want to respond to. One day, when I’m tired or tipsy, I will respond and tell them what I think. – Chris Colfer
- Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack. – Robert Jordan
- The best way for you to grow is to sack yourself. – Haresh Sippy
- I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating. – Katherine Dunn
- For every ten vampires who are happy being monsters, there’s always one sad-sack who misses the sunrise. – Tori Centanni
- Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from the chair to the bed and the bed to the chair. – Mitch Albom
- Y’all think a body be who you is, but it ain’t nothing but a mother????ing sack of meat. – James Hannaham
- Curiosity may have killed the cat, but paranoia was what tied it up in a sack and buried it in wet concrete. – Kate Griffin
- Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn’t collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs. – Jasper Fforde
- Katey’s the hottest bookworm you’ll ever meet. If you took all the books that she’s read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way. – Amor Towles
- His gaze glossed over a stack of wooden crates and landed on a steamer trunk that was covered with stickers from all over the world. – Megan Frazer Blakemore
- Why waste the space on a stack of half-read books and periodicals, when you could turn your nightstand into a tactical toolbox? – Clint Emerson
- Sorry, one night stands don’t stack up as credentials for tending bar. – Katherine McIntyre
- Nature: it might be the magical key to unlock a locked imagination. – Kami Guildner
- I’m thinking that I shouldn’t have filed my nails last night. – Dara Torres
- Like everyone, I want my soul to thrum. I run my long nails over the keys like I’m scratching the back of a lover. – Carlos Hernndez
- We’ve both got a million bad habits to kick, not sleeping is one. We’re biting our nails, you’re biting my lip, I’m biting my tongue. – Lorde
- Ladder of success is made by nails of Patience. – Vikrmn
- You can tell a lot from a person’s nails. When a life starts to unravel, they’re among the first to go. – Ian McEwan
- Maybe tranquility is the dirt under my nails. I know it’s there but I never feel like digging it out. – Casey Renee Kiser
- Looks like my superpowers don’t come with automatic manicures, thank heaven. I hate long nails. – Jennifer Silverwood
- The nails did not kill Him… It was the needs that did. – Johnnie Dent Jr
- The moon shone upon his almost transparent hands, and Stephen saw that the nails were fearfully long and that the light shone through them. – MR James
- Focus isn’t about hammering one nail all our lives.It’s about hammering lots of nails, one way, all our lives. – Scott Ginsberg
- I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes. – Arkady Strugatsky
- A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul. – China Miville