Boyhood Coetzee Quotes & Sayings

No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions. — Dan Miller

Prodigies began to waken somewhere southwest of his twelfth rib, and he himself- still mirroring the Lady Amalthea- began to shine. — Peter S. Beagle

It takes a lot of un-spectacular preparation, to get spectacular results — Roger Staubach

I think the truth to living fully is to appreciate what we have, day by day, regardless of what we know might come our way. — Lisa Tawn Bergren

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't. — Eben Alexander

If it be sin to love a lovely lad
Oh there sin I. — Richard Barnfield

I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that anything will ever beat the view I had from my desk window in my little farmhouse in Nebraska. Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side. — Meghan Daum

Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty
his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of his imagining. Art accounts for at least a third of our civilization,
and it is one of the artist's principal duties to do more than merely record life or nature.
To the artist is given the privilege of pointing the way and inspiring towards a better life. — Paul Outerbridge

I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg. — Jay Leno

I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.' — Dan Stevens

To give a lot when you have a lot is easy; but to give a lot when you have so little is indeed a gift of love. — Bette Lee Crosby

The time to go into a new business is when it's badly run by others. — Richard Branson

Phury?" "No, I'm not gay." "Don't feel like you need to hide it or anything." "I wouldn't. I'm just not." "You bi, then? — J.R. Ward