Clashing Realities Quotes & Sayings

I am grateful for every situation. I discovered my potential strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Here I sit with my three old cats, getting closer to eternity all the time, on a twine chair - (Van Gogh) and me too - and it gets very depressing. What can I do? I had high hopes. We all did. Remember just outside the Tangier Consulate: "Have you met the Skipper yet?" Later I did. And now no skipping, no transport anywhere, except to a cut-rate mortuary. Where were you when I wasn't there? "Hound of Hell!!" screamed the Pop Star, and kicked the fink dog in the nuts. "Only decent thing I done." "Forget the whole thing. I have." Great gasp at this point. How much time? have I left? Not much it seems. — William S. Burroughs

... the last year had seen women and children carrying [gas] masks about as they carried a handbag or a skipping rope. — Kristy Cambron

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance? — Wallace Shawn

I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before. — Shawn Johnson

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head. — Martin Amis

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God. — Johann Lamont

Until 1942. It ... but what was I saying? " "Twenty thousand people who lived right — Stephen King

The scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse — John Knowles

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. - Savielly Tartakover (Polish GM) — Katherine Neville

With bisexuality, there's so much out there in terms of what that means and there are so many definitions, and it's about finding out what's right for you. — Evan Rachel Wood

Evil flourishes because the good aren't good enough," see murmured. "And sometimes the good just have bad days. — K.J. Bishop