Blackmon Road Quotes & Sayings

In the past two decades it has become widely recognized that when adults or children are too skittish or shut down to derive comfort from human beings, relationships with other mammals can help. Dogs and horses and even dolphins offer less complicated companionship while providing the necessary sense of safety. Dogs and horses, in particular, are now extensively used to treat some groups of trauma patients.10 — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

Because I believe in my ... proud citizen of this country should be doing. And that is to try and put in as much as he takes out. I guess it's to the hard knocks of life that I attribute this conclusion. — Stompin' Tom Connors

But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all. — Veronica Roth

It was nice to find out, then, that if one is characterologically incapable of not being a total fuckface, science has not shown you will die any sooner . People might just be gladder when you eventually do. — David Rakoff

The Devil can quote scripture, after all. And monsters can say "please" and "thank you" same as any mother's son. — Elizabeth Bear

Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently. — Marie Forleo

Working to make everybody equal didn't leave much chance for anyone to achieve greatness. — Drew Karpyshyn

It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed out, and the reviewer can't put it off indefinitely with sneers, although some neophytes might be tempted to try: "When in doubt, stick out your tongue" is a safe rule that never cost one any readers. But there's nothing strong about it, and it has nothing to do with the real business of criticism, which is to do justice to the best work of one's time, so that nothing gets lost. — Wilfrid Sheed

Make me immortal with a kiss. — Christopher Marlowe

Nico didn't respond. He'd never had anyone talk to him this openly before, except maybe for Hazel. He felt like he was watching a flock of birds settle on a field. One loud sound might startle them away. — Rick Riordan

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. — Ben Jonson

Water you dead bastard — Thaddeus Nowak