Carlyn Burchell Quotes & Sayings

What constitutes a beautiful girl? It is not merely an anatomical or aesthetic quality. Beautiful girls have an inner beauty, an inner light that defeats the darkness. It is a way of walking, smiling, of being. They have a certain smell, sweet as baby breath. They radiate good will, kindness, selflessness. — Chloe Thurlow

If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality. — Walter Darby Bannard

It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us. — Mairead Corrigan

Jack sheathed his knife, tied the dressed hare to a stick, and slung it over his shoulder. It wouldn't do for the meat to touch his school uniform. Might make the kill dirty. — Ilona Andrews

The power of a woman is in her beauty. Show it off every time you have the chance — Bangambiki Habyarimana

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts. — Jean Cocteau

Has been argued with some justification that it is Anna's growing sense of bleak isolation that is the essence of her tragedy. There — Leo Tolstoy

What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to. — Ani DiFranco

I'm very old-fashioned - I don't operate with an agenda. If you're a biographer, you want to be passionate about what you're doing but dispassionate about how you do it. — Richard Norton Smith

The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically extended lifespan, in spite of bold claims to the contrary that by now should sound familiar. — S. Jay Olshansky

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize. — Martin Seligman

Don't ever yell at me. I don't yell, so talk to me in a regular voice. — Margaret Aranda

Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides. — Amos Bronson Alcott

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct. — Nancy Thayer

Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are. — Omar Suleiman