Chaparron Quotes & Sayings

If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down. — Quentin Tarantino

Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that. — John Vianney

I hate that just because I live here I'm supposed to live politics. And there's nothing you can do. If you don't live politics, politics will leave you. — Marlon James

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart ... — Haruki Murakami

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria. — Larry Wall

I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still lingering in my head. I realized there were some pieces where I felt that I had to respond to the criticism. — Kalup Linzy

I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective. — Kristin Gore

I love it when people tell me you can't. For the very moment they say you can't, they challenge the "I can" that lies deep down within me, and the result is always positive. The I can in me rises up to the challenge and gets the job done. — Bien Sufficient

Genocide, as many have noted, is a form of community-building. — David Burr Gerrard

You do your best, you do all this stuff, but the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. — Amy Grant

This world ... belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf is the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he goes on. He knows his place. He most certainly doesn't challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it? — Ken Kesey

What annoys us most in other people is oftentimes the same area God wants us to grow in ourselves. — Mark Hart