Chaunsay Quotes & Sayings

It's exactly the thing that I'm reduced to doing for myself. It seems to rescue a little, you see, from the wreck of hopes and ambitions, the refuse-heap of disappointments and failures, my one presentable little scrap of an identity. — Henry James

Do I have to celebrate our engagement every year for nothing? I don't need practice, you know. It's starting to become cruel — Hilary Grossman

I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well. — Jack Kirby

If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time, illegal immigration will come to a screeching halt. — Jose Ferreira

Lizards that blend into the rock do so to catch flies. — Margaret Weis

If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them! — Hans Rosling

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves. — Criss Jami

You totally ruined my life, you know that?' said Rincewind hotly. 'I could have really made it as a wizard if you hadn't decided to use me as a sort of portable spellbook. I can't remember any other spells, they're all too frightened to stay in the same head as you! — Terry Pratchett

What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is like trying to make gunpowder out of chemicals. You have these words and sentences and the strange meanings and associations that are attached to the words and sentences, and you're somehow cooking these things all up so that they suddenly explode and have a powerful effect. That's what absorbs me from day to day in writing a play. — Wallace Shawn

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower. — Isaac Stern

There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you'll make the right decision. — Cecelia Ahern

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. — C.S. Forester

80% of life is showing up. — Woody Allen