Boudinar Quotes & Sayings

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it. — Wendy Cope

I guess I was lucky I didn't drown, or smother in the thick, black, icy mud that the river left behind in its slow withdrawal back within its banks.

I didn't feel lucky.

When I regained consciousness, my head and ribs winning the battle with the rest of my body for sharp, almost unbearable pain, my first thought was Chrissy. Chrissy, pulled away from me by the merciless power of the water. Chrissy, lost somewhere, maybe injured, calling for me and I wasn't there for her. Chrissy, beautiful, wonderful Chrissy, quite probably lying in the mud, dead!

My scream of anguish, of pain and loss, echoed through the empty Liverpool streets. There was no shame or embarrassment in that shout, that bellow of emotion. I had lost the woman I loved. Nothing I'd ever felt compared to the agony, the gut-wrenching loss of that moment.

I cried. I sat there in the middle of a street I didn't recognise, not knowing how far the wave had carried me, and cried. — Neil Davies

Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals. — Gene Luen Yang

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves. — Saint Augustine

I take back what I said about the donkey,' Ascanio said. 'She's awesome — Ilona Andrews

Question everything generally thought to be obvious. — Dieter Rams

Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart. — Marcel Proust

Knowledge is the beauty of a diamond, but wisdom is the shining reflection of that beauty. — Debasish Mridha

I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way. — Beth Kephart

Anything covered is always interesting. There is never nothing beneath something that is covered. — Deborah Levy

When I really like something, I tend to never listen to it again. I want to remember the feeling even more than I want to remember the music. If you get that record back out, you risk learning that it's not as good in reality as it is inside of you. Better to have the memory than to go back and have to adjust your truth. And even if it is every bit as good, you're just going to deconstruct it. You're going to use your brain instead of your feelings. As you get older, feelings are hard to come by. - Richard Nichols — Ahmir Questlove Thompson

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same. — Chris Burke

Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed. — John Muir