Amateur Surgeon Quotes & Sayings

Those who write may think they know their target market. They may even feel they can shape the work to fit it. If this is true of you, you have more control over your creative process than I do. Even so, I humbly submit that you try letting your writing shape your target market instead and see what happens. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you're twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you don't know what your small true part is until much later. — Nathan Hill

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. — Thomas Gray

I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me! — Sharon Stone

I wish we had rocket launchers. — Allan Frewin Jones

Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic. — Laozi

Patience is an unfailing remedy for friction in personal relations. Even if a person has never won a beauty contest, has no money in the bank, can't even change a flat tire, if he or she has inexhaustible patience, then we will find that life with such a person will never grow stale. — Eknath Easwaran

MATAMORE: I never fight with my love face on,
I worry that it might get scratched. — Tony Kushner

No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit the entire room becomes luminous. You are that luminosity. You are that clear light. — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Because of the movies I make, people get nervous. They think of me as difficult and angry. I am difficult and angry, but they don't expect a sense of humor. And the only thing that gets me through is a sense of humor. — Martin Scorsese

I'm not stonewalling; I'm just not into talking about religion, I told you that. — James L. Rubart