Clevingers Quotes & Sayings

She thought about her life and how lost she'd felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she'd been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living? — Douglas Coupland

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing. — Neil Gaiman

I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers ... — David Foster Wallace

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take. — Peter McWilliams

I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel. — Gwen Moore

It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point? What you need is a cooperative effort with merchants in a metropolitan area to create a tipping point where you can justify advertising and merchants are willing to attempt this new payment system. — David Robertson

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head. — Robert Harris

No one can ever win by defeating someone; you only win by letting someone win. — Debasish Mridha

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction. — Jetta Carleton

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people. — Amanda Palmer