2214 Goebbert Quotes & Sayings

Happy," for instance, once meant "luck." Not good luck or bad, just luck. Look what we have done to ourselves. We think we can actually pursue happiness. — Abigail Thomas

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. — Pete Hamill

I give dating advice on a regular basis. It's not that I'm any expert, but it's always nice to share that with your friends. — Ashley Tisdale

You have got to be the most irritating person I've ever met." "Yeah, I get that a lot. — Kelly Thompson

The Debasement of World Currency:It Is Inflation, But Not As We Know It — Chris Powell

We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance — Ernest Hemingway,

I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks. — Carmen Ejogo

What I recall is this: this native people he lived with, deep in the jungle - their language had dozens of words for rain. Because it was so common to them, you see. Where they lived, it rained almost constantly. Several times a day. So they had words for light rain, and heavy rain, and pounding rain. Something like eighteen different terms for storms, and a whole classification system for mist."
"Why are you telling me this?"
His touch skimmed lightly down her arm. "Because I'm standing here, wanting to give you fitting compliment, but my paltry vocabulary fails me. I think what I need is a scientific excursion. I need to venture deep into some jungle where beauty takes the place of rain. Where loveliness itself falls from the sky at regular intervals. Dots every surface, saturates the ground, hangs like vapor in the air. Because the way you look right now ... " His gaze cought hers in the reflection. "They'd have a word for it there. — Tessa Dare

But then his lips quirked up,and amusement flickered in his eyes.Something else,too - something that made my heart beat faster. — Lauren Myracle

Maybe it's not about having a plan, or even a plan B. Maybe it's about seeing where life takes you and learning to enjoy the ride. — Jenny O'Connell

It is in the nature of poetry that it speaks to the heart as well as the head. — Malcolm Guite

Write about us," Robinson urged. "Tell our story." And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands. — James Patterson

For all the talk about the need to be a likable "team player," many people work in a fairly cutthroat environment that would seem to be especially challenging to those who possess the recommended traits. Cheerfulness, upbeatness, and compliance: these are the qualities of subordinates
of servants rather than masters, women (traditionally, anyway) rather than men. After advising his readers to overcome the bitterness and negativity engendered by frequent job loss and to achieve a perpetually sunny outlook, management guru Harvey Mackay notes cryptically that "the nicest, most loyal, and most submissive employees are often the easiest people to fire." Given the turmoil in the corporate world, the prescriptions of niceness ring of lambs-to-the-slaughter. — Barbara Ehrenreich

In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even if you make the best wine in the world, someone isn't going to like it, because it isn't their style. Judging wine is very subjective. — Mario Andretti

But if a man truly loved you, he would see the beauty that lies much deeper than those scars. — Sarah Holman