Cix Members Quotes & Sayings

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel. — Peter Kreeft

Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have. — Leo Tolstoy

I told him point-blank so there would be no mistake: This person he wanted to know better did not exist; I was who I seemed to be from the outside. That would never change. — Jeff VanderMeer

The key ingredient to better content is separating the single from the stream. — David Hahn

Words are harsh mistresses, to be sure. Like petulant divas, they want only those parts that play to their talents and mask their blemishes, and only when complete companies of players who love their parts are assembled will they sing in harmony. I am your director for this stage production and will employ my best wiles to create a performance both truthful, and beautiful. I know that words are tricksters who show one face to you and another to me, so I am never certain you'll hear in your head what I hear in my head. Since I deliver even this little truth with words, I acknowledge the irony. — Dennis Vickers

Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person. — Annie Lennox

You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. — Louis C.K.

Me love that man to the max. Me would take a bullet for the Singer. But gentlemens, me can only take one. — Marlon James

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse. — Malachy McCourt

It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. — Ursula K. Le Guin