Bedsole Mendenhall Quotes & Sayings

Make sure your family and loved ones don't interrupt you during your
writing time. If you're a lawyer or doctor, friends don't just stop by the office to chat or interrupt you from your work. But for some reason, people think writing is different. It isn't, and you need to make clear that this is sacred time. — Douglas Preston

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt. — Natalie Wood

When a man gets to middle age shouldn't he look for a peaceful and stable existence, find a not-too-demanding sort of a job, stay in a mediocre position, become a husband and a father, set up a comfortable home, put money in the bank and add to it every month so there'll be something for old age and a little left over for the next generation? — Gao Xingjian

Now is the time to ask yourself, what you believe. — Rob MacGregor

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think. — Randy Pausch

Sometimes you need to swallow hard and recognise your enemy as a fellow human being like who has the same rights as you and accept that you need to live in same space. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things. — Alexander McQueen

And when you and I are long forgot, they'll say, 'You should have heard them playing. You should have seen them marching, then.' And it'll snow again. But it'll no break 'til after the parade. And when we come back from the hill it'll be bitter cold, and a wee bit misty maybe, and pink over the roofs. I see it fine. — James Kennaway

My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it ... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth ... — Georgia O'Keeffe

They say you only have so many breaths in your lifetime, and I think disappointments might be the same. — Dorothea Benton Frank

At my age, I don't need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much. — Karl Lagerfeld

Often we tell ourselves, "Don't just sit there, do something!" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: "Don't just do something, sit there!" — Nhat Hanh

When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a roll here. But I am still first and foremost in search of freedom. — Harry Belafonte

And I didn't want you to expose me as a deserter, someone who disappears. But things happened as they did anyway. What I wanted to say was that even if I wasn't there for you, that doesn't mean you weren't important to me. We can't live the lives we would like to. We're prisoners of ... things. Of who we are." Oleg lifted his chin. "Of junk and shit." "That, too. — Jo Nesbo

William Finch, Hawkins's assistant, who is the source for the story of Akbar's concubine Anarkali, 'Pomegranate Blossom'; — Alex Rutherford