Albis Quotes & Sayings

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me. — John Thorn

If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn't flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Having boys is different. Boys, you put sneakers on, and they're out, they're ready. Girls, you gotta pay a little bit more attention to them. — Tracy Morgan

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I admire your capacity for admiring. — Jonathan Franzen

That's all history is, after all: scar tissue. 3 — Stephen King

Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources. — George C. Lorimer

Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie? — Johnny Rich

Can often be confused with," he looked me dead in the eye, "lust. — A&E Kirk

Suppose ... burglars had made entry into this ... [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress. — Mark Twain

You have to respect yourself before you can command a guy's respect. — Arlene James