Cherly Strayed Quotes & Sayings

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped. — Tracey Ullman

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing. — Nathanael West

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself. — Idina Menzel

And they see, for a moment,
Stretching out, like the desert
In its weary, unprofitable length,
Their faded ignoble lives.

While the locks are yet brown on thy head,
While the soul still looks through thine eyes,
While the heart still pours
The mantling blood to thy cheek,
Sink, O Youth, in thy soul!
Yearn to the greatness of Nature!
Rally the good in the depths of thyself. — Matthew Arnold

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care. — Elizabeth George

I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap. — Hanya Yanagihara

Agapi mou, you are my everything. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I'm learning how much I have to learn, how little I know, how fragile my understanding is. I'm learning to be thankful and patient; today is all that we will ever have in this life. If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed. The wise man seeks God in the now and brings both his regrets and fears before Him. The freedom that we are offered is truly amazing: to live, today, free from even our own fallen desires. This is where I want to be. — Jon Foreman

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. — Ray Bradbury

I'm not really obsessed with death. — Robert Smith

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone. — Tori Amos

There is no better manager than a natural born one. — Rossana Condoleo

Fighting is going on inside the elevator', one of their soldiers wrote. 'It is occupied not by men but by devils, whom no flames or bullets can destroy. If all the buildings of Stalingrad are defended like this, then none of our soldiers will get back to Germany. — Michael K. Jones