Claretta Street Quotes & Sayings

There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does ... and that someone is me — C.S. Lewis

Do you see now why I believe in miracles? I used to imagine time folding over, the shades of our future selves slipping back to the crucial moments to tap each of us on the shoulder and whisper: Look, there, look! That man, that woman: they're for you; that's your life, your future, fidgeting in the line, dripping on the carpet, shuffling in that doorway. Don't miss it. — Tana French

The great move mountains;
the cowardly hide behind them.
The extraordinary walk on water;
the mediocre drown on land.
The excellent perform miracles;
the inferior carry out mischief. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience - every reader is a different person. — William Zinsser

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood. — Samuel Johnson

There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The right side of his face was sore, the left side tender with beard burn. Regardless that smiling made his face ache; he couldn't stop it when he thought about his and Judge's kiss. That mind-consuming-all-encompassing-soul-searching kiss. And did Judge say that Michaels was his? — A.E. Via

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans. — Alf Landon

Encounters are after all merely future farewells and he could live with that as long as they both got happy endings. Even if it meant they didn't get it together. — BeccaAmon

We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many people are scientifically illiterate, often having been put off science at school. — Robert Winston

Stars were falling across the sky myriad and random, speeding along brief vectors from their origins in night to their destinies in dust and nothingness. — Cormac McCarthy

My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldn't advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk. That's all that I can say. 'If I fall....' - that is your fear. Put the crutches away, and you are not going to fall. — U.G. Krishnamurti

Strange it's such a quiet peaceful existence and I'm enjoying it so thoroughly. — Laura Joplin