Botchers Gap Quotes & Sayings

If you could work your way to heaven, you would said look what I did, I got myself here by my good works. The only way you are going to make it is to come to that Cross. — Billy Graham

This by the way is known as Werther's Axiom, whereby quote The Intensity of a desire D is inversely proportional to the ease of D's gratification. Known also as Romance. — David Foster Wallace

Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and the next. — Stephen Baxter

Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings. — Flann O'Brien

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there. — Andrew J. Bernstein

I first realized I was psychic next Monday — Dean Cavanagh

The more dangerous the situation I put myself into, the more I rise, the better I become. — Eddie Alvarez

In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to. — Dan Shechtman

The person is being confrontational. — Steve McQueen

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old. — Betty White

There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great. — Noah Baumbach

Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like a series of brutal kicks in the teeth. Those who grow a thick enough skin to persevere, survive. Those who do not, do not. — Gardner Dozois

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business? — Bette Greene

Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be. — Ian McLeod