Claustrophobia Funny Quotes & Sayings

Try not to compare your children, even if you think you are skillful at it. You may say most positively that "Susan is pretty and Sandra is bright," but all Susan will remember is that she isn't bright and Sandra that she isn't pretty. Praise each child individually for what that child is and help him or her escape our culture's obsession with comparing, competing, and never feeling we are "enough. — Jeffrey R. Holland

I love a mysterious underground and have exploited this in many of my books: the ice tunnels of Greenland, the volcanic tubes of Iceland, the mysterious passageways beneath an ancient African hillside or a Buddhist monastery in central China. And of course, London's famous tube system, setting for my book LONDON UNDERGROUND. It's a funny sort of fixation, especially given my mother's claustrophobia, which I saw her deal with on many occasions. We once lined up to take a tour into the Lascaux Caverns in France to see the ancient cave paintings. My mother didn't make it past the first quirky turn into the depths, and she sent me on by myself. Given her interest in history and archaeology, which she used as the basis for a series of mysteries she published and which inspired my own writing, it always surprised me she still loved to write about places she could never visit. — Chris Angus

Love is divine force. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I love playing basketball because you could be having a rough day in your life, and while you're on the court it gives you a clear mind. I'm not worried about anything. I'm there just playing freely and I go out there all and I have fun. — Derrick Rose

You don't have to get it right the first time. — Barbara Sher

What is certain, is that war will not leave us as it found us. - WOMAN AT HOME, February 1915 — Jacqueline Winspear

I could be judging unfairly, but all the people I've met who've really changed from unhealthy to healthy have a story, a story about hitting rock bottom, realizing what they were doing wrong, and radically changing the way they live so they don't repeat their mistakes. Characters only change when they live through a story. — Donald Miller

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it. — Tom Bodett

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. — Xavier Dolan

I've read more truth in fiction than in nonfiction, partly because fiction can deal with the numinous, and nonfiction rarely does. — Dean Koontz

A Kitchen Prayer Thank God for dirty dishes, They have a tale to tell; While others may go hungry We're eating very well. With home, health, and happiness, I shouldn't want to fuss; By the stack of evidence, God's been very good to us! ~ Anonymous ~ — Darlene Schacht

Vindication is the privilege of the victorious — Jelle Peters

If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar sense in which this city existing mainly on film and tape is our national capital, alas, and not just the capital of California. It's the place where our children learn how and what to dream and where everything happens just before, or just after, it happens to us. — Ross Macdonald

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy. — Henry Ward Beecher

It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. — Cassandra Clare