Cioccolanti 8 Quotes & Sayings

Criticism often hides incompetence & increases vanity. Therefore critics are always more vain that the achievers they criticize. — Steve Cioccolanti

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. — Anton Chekhov

I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes. — Al McGuire

Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story. — John Wooden

A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those ... and some works of art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art. — Rupert Sheldrake

Maybe the easiest things are the hardest to come up with. Like they say, people miss what's going on right under their noses. — Haruki Murakami

Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting. — Lana Del Rey

The question of how one survived is simply not asked. It is not polite. How one survived is best not discussed. — Nick Cole

My brother had very specific likes and dislikes. Basically, he liked anything until it harmed him and then he was wary. — Augusten Burroughs

I told him that when we first met ... I felt like a butterfly trapped in a net. But ... I told him that the more time I spent with him, the more I began to realize how much he means to me I told him that since it seems to be my destiny to dodge raindrops ... I was grateful to be dodging them with him. So, I promised him that it would always be his name on my mind when I start my rotation ... and when I go to bed each evening ... and every quiet moment in between. It will be his name ... savored on my lips ... stretched across my heart ... worshipped by my body ... and branded in my mind ... until death do us part ... and forever after that. — Amy A. Bartol

We have taken the holistic message preached in the Old Testament and New Testaments and reduced our message to the entry point into the Kingdom. — Landa Cope

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one's cues. — Lev Grossman

Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks. — Rachel Platten

I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned. — Etty Hillesum

When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending the rules is okay. Once people hate you for bending those rules, breaking them becomes a matter of survival. — Edward Snowden

His poem is like a play in a room through the windows of which a distant view can be seen over a large part of the English traditions about the world of their original home. (Tolkien on the author of Beowulf) — J.R.R. Tolkien

2017 is the Year of Jubilee! Receive its blessings in your spirit! Forgive and be forgiven. Reconcile and be reconcilable. Revival is due! — Steve Cioccolanti