Billhooks Quotes & Sayings

Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another. — Nathaniel Philbrick

What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why? — Norbert Lynton

I believe that the Europeans, first and foremost, the Germans, will also understand me. Let me remind you that in the course of political consultations on the unification of East and West Germany ... some nations that were then and are now Germany's allies did not support the idea of unification. Our nation, however, unequivocally supported the sincere, unstoppable desire of the Germans for national unity. I am confident that you have not forgotten this, and I expect that the citizens of Germany will also support the aspiration of the Russians, of historical Russia, to restore unity. — Vladimir Putin

Remember life insurance is intended as income replacement to help dependents and or/spouse pay for things that your income would have covered. When you get to the point that you're dependents (Your kids mostly) aren't dependent on your income, you could reduce the amount of life insurance you are carrying. — Michelle Singletary

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything. — Jose Bergamin

My father would say, The forgotten songs we never really knew, only think we remember knowing, when what we really do is understand at the same time how we have never really know them at all and how glorious they must really be. — Paul Harding

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men. — Sydney J. Harris

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake. — Vince Gill

New Yorkers are either the nicest or the rudest. — Janet McTeer

The witless destroy what they don't understand. — Loretta Chase

Hatred can be overcome only by love. — Mahatma Gandhi

You know, even though I'm in fashion, I don't, like, do fashion. Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff. I just want to do whatever makes me happy ... Like being totally conscious. Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do. Being with friends, having fun ... being a bit daft. — Agyness Deyn

workers with children).1 Crime travels hand — Scott Martelle