Blecken Memphis Quotes & Sayings

Only the stupid conquer in life; the other man foresees
too many obstacles and becomes uncertain before he starts. — Erich Maria Remarque

Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven. — Camillus De Lellis

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it. — Alice Munro

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it. — Joan Didion

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame. — Roger Ebert

There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time. — Sonny Rollins

At six o'clock we cleaned our cells,
At seven all was still,
But the sough and swing of a mighty wing
The prison seemed to fill,
For the Lord of Death with icy breath
Had entered in to kill. — Oscar Wilde

Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But pain seems to be a precondition for this kind of sport. If pain weren't involved, who in the world would ever go to the trouble of taking part in sports like the triathlon or the marathon, which demand such an investment of time and energy? It's precisely because of the pain, precisely because we want to overcome that pain, that we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive
or at least a partial sense of it. Your quality of experience is based not on standards such as time or ranking, but on finally awakening to an awareness of the fluidity within action itself. — Haruki Murakami

If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers! - Homer Simpson — R.J. Palacio

His knowingness made him cold. — Lesley Howarth