5220 Quotes & Sayings

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. — Joseph Conrad

Security ... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens. — Harry Browne

I have the time needed to support the album and tour. — Aaliyah

Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty ; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much cares whether you do, and for which there may be neither audience nor reward. Making the work you want to make means setting aside these doubts so that you may see clearly what you have done, and thereby see where to go next. Making the work you want to make means finding nourishment within the work itself. — David Bayles

God knows why God has made some of us ecclesiastically homeless, but I hope and pray that our being so may be in service to Christian unity. — Stanley Hauerwas

Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are a gift, and you write them down as honestly and cleanly as you can. — Helen Prejean

She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, "There you go."
Willing — Lorrie Moore

Foo-foo the First, King of the Mooncalves! — Mark Twain

Corporate identity specialists spend their time rechristening other companies, conducting a legal search and a linguistic search to insure that the name is not an insult in another language. — Lisa Belkin

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting. — Gerry Mulligan

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench. — Anne Carson

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write. — Jennifer Rowe