Albie Selznick Quotes & Sayings

You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories. — Linda Fairstein

It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book! — Rachel Tucker

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present. — Abraham Lincoln

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves. — Herman Wouk

One thing I have learned hard, if indeed I have learned it now: it is a reduction of our humanity to hide from pain, our own or others'. To hide from anything. That was Marian's text. Be open, be available, be exposed, be skinless. Skinless? Dance around in your bones. — Wallace Stegner

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along. — Thomas Dewar

We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings; it's dangerous for a tribe to allow its members to show their feelings. — Paulo Coelho

Her eyes narrowed, but she wasn't yelling.
I think she liked me ... kind of. The way a mother would like an annoying spastic two year old who belonged to someone else. — Robyn Peterman

If I don't really try, I can't really fail, right? — Leisa Rayven

Why do people have to love people anyway? — Shirley Maclaine

You did not tell me what you are doing athletically just now but I do hope that if your arm comes along next spring you can get it in good shape to try out for the pitching spot on the varsity. However, if you don't make it then I suggest you take up golf which after all is the best game of all of them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hear more than people say.
Give more than people ask.
Do more than people expect.
Achieve more than people imagine. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing. — Aesop

My Christmas prayer is that I would remain close to God, and He close to me. With all the suffering in the world today, there is the temptation to fall to fear ... we need to be near the Lord.. we need the Hope of Christmas. — Don Moen