Bendickson Reef Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to be a professional to express an experienced opinion. Often times, the professionals are silent ... or biased ... — Garrett McCoy

You may appreciate positivity
when you accept and understand negativity.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
September 17, 2016
Amen
God — Petra Hermans

When you expect anything from music, you expect too much. — Josh Homme

Don't live life as a spectator. — Felix Baumgartner

They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels. — Michael Gove

Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns. — Stephen Kinzer

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck. — Corey Haim

There's something about writing that demands a leave-taking, an abandonment of the world, paradoxically, in order to see it clearly. This retreat has to be accomplished without severing the vital connection to the world, and to people, that feeds the imagination. It's a difficult balance. And here is where these ruminations about writing touch on morality. The same constraints to writing well are also constraints to living fully. Not to be a slave to fashion or commerce, not to succumb to arid self-censorship, not to bow to popular opinion - what is all that but a description of the educated, enlightened life? — Jeffrey Eugenides

The observer, that old record keeper, the chronicler of events, made his appearance in that taxi. The hands of my clock turned elastic while I imprinted these feelings in memory. You must remember this. It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive.
Memory. — Abraham Verghese