Bisaillon Family History Quotes & Sayings

Really good 'hard' novels - say, Wolf Hall - yield, if you read them carefully, the information you need when you need it, in order to follow their paths. But there is a point at which subtle storytelling maneuvers outmaneuver their own intelligibility. — Daniel Menaker

We all get knock down in life. We must never stay down. Find the grace to rise up. You have the chance to start again. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's the cold fish dying in your stomach feeling. You try to forget about it, but as soon as you do, the fish starts flopping around under your heart and reminds you that something truly horrible is happening. — Ruth Ozeki

The body is not hidden from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, and yet the soul is not for everyone to see. — Rumi

Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by malnutrition and starvation. Yet many of these deaths would be preventable if we addressed them head on and used the tools that exist to stop them. — Richard J. Roberts

All those artists and writers who bemoan how hard the work is, and oh, how tedious the creative process, and oh, what a tortured genius they are. Don't buy into it. . . . As if difficulty and struggle and torture somehow confer seriousness upon your chosen work. Doing great work simply because you love it, sounds, in our culture, somehow flimsy, and that's a failing of our culture, not of the choice of work that artists make." This — Timothy Ferriss

My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC. — Gary Reilly

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things. — Tom Allen

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place. — Jennifer Weiner

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. — Hermann Hesse

We can change our wives," he said. "We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team. — Elizabeth Gilbert

B1U12B. Be One You Want To Be — Johannes Masombuka