"Sometimes my feelings are so hot that..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results
More by Mark Twain
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
“No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.”
“An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.”
More on Writing
“Just get the right syllable in the proper place.”
“I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.”
“This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.”
More on Emotion
“My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.”
“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”
“She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .”