18 Bd Quotes & Sayings

After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it. — Chang-rae Lee

I didn't mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side. — Aimee Bender

She was a nightmare of beauty and menace living right there above them, a being part raptor, part human, part divine. She knew without question that she could sweep down on them and inflict upon all of them a terrible vengeance if she wished. She had the capacity for violence within her, residing beside her heart. — David Anthony Durham

the Poor Men of Lyons, — Mark Kurlansky

You ever talk to an old person? I mean a really, really old person. They always have this exhausted look on their face that says, I can't believe I'm still here! I would've eaten so much more ice cream. Why did I ever consume kale? — Jim Gaffigan

They say 'stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage'. It was a quotation I knew as a boy. I had made it my own back then. I knew they couldn't capture my mind. Whilst I could still think, I was free. — Denis Avey

Spiritual energy-the energy that comes from pure consciousness-is the creative energy of the universe. — Deepak Chopra

Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom. — John Bunyan

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music. — Billy Corgan

Christ not only died for all: He died for each. — Billy Graham

If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it. — Ashley Tisdale

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must. — Ford Madox Ford

Soul is not even that Crackerjack prize that God and Satan scuffle over after the worms have all licked our bones. That's why, when we ponder
as sooner or later each of us must
exactly what we ought to be doing about our soul, religion is the wrong, if conventional, place to turn. Religion is little more than a transaction in which troubled people trade their souls for temporary and wholly illusionary psychological comfort
the old give-it-up-in-order-to-save-it routine. Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in their vaults, or at least insure it against fire theft. They are mistaken. — Tom Robbins