Andrewshadowjimmy Quotes & Sayings

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavour to flee from another's, which is not. — Marcus Aurelius

Anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play. — Wendy Wasserstein

Success isn't guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren't truly emotionally invested in your work. — Biz Stone

For a while I thought I had lost her for good, but in our own fucked up way we had
swallowed our pride and reached out to one another. We both knew it would never be easy, but
we were willing to try. I knew that Kate wasn't universally loved by the Pack, but they owed me.
I bled for them, I fixed their petty squabbles. I had given them everything, they would give me
this one thing. Or I would break it all apart. — Gordon Andrews

Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn't deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you. — Eric Ludy

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it. — Patrick Ness

Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die. — Waris Dirie

Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace. — Eddie Bernice Johnson

At ordinary times, then, we are perfectly certain that men are not equal. But when, in a democratic country, we think or act politically we are no less certain that men are equal. Or at any rate - which comes to the same thing in practice - we behave as though we were certain of men's equality. — Aldous Huxley

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years. — Diane Duane

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus. — William P. Young

Oh." Timmie gave Bones a shy peek. "Are you Cathy's brother?"
"Whatever would give you the idea that I'm her damn brother?" Bones snapped. — Jeaniene Frost

I came along in the '60s having absorbed as much as I could up until then and added my own tastes and search into the equation. I guess that's how I see 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' in relation to the development of jazz in general. — Chick Corea

Keep America Beautiful, he thought, Kill a Scarface Today. He — Robert McCammon

Like Phoenix, you work all your life to find your way, through all the obstructions and the false appearances and the upsets you may have brought on yourself, to reach a meaning - using inventions of your imagination, perhaps helped out by your dreams and bits of good luck. And finally too, like Phoenix, you have to assume that what you are working in aid of is life, not death. But you would make the trip anyway - wouldn't you? - just on hope. 1974 — Eudora Welty