Colette Werden Quotes & Sayings

My kitty wishes to engulf you within her darkened delta of destruction. — Matt Fraction

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.' — Amaury Nolasco

Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings. — Kent Haruf

I've been surprised by how many of you actually seem to believe that what you have is perfection. [ ... ] A great many of you consciously or unconsciously think of evolution as a process of inexorable improvement. You imagine that humans began as a completely miserable lot but under the influence of evolution very gradually got better and better and better and better until one day the became what you are now, complete with frost-free refrigerators, microwave ovens, air-conditioning, minivans, and satellite telivision with six hundred channels. [ ... ] In its root sense, 'wealth' isn't a synonym for 'money', it's a synonym for 'wellness'. — Daniel Quinn

You probably have started losing touch with humility when your friends start avoiding you without telling you why. — Albert Kanene Obiefuna

I tour a lot and interview a lot. I'm on the Internet and doing stuff. I go out and promote. I've got a bass drum and a sandwich sign and a washboard. You just have to shout louder and louder that you're still alive. — Al Jarreau

Soon we're both frowning hard at the paperwork. "Middle name?" Noah says. "Does Gideon even have a middle name?"
"I don't know"
Noah turns to me and says, "Do you have a middle name?" his glare implying that, if I do, this whole thing is somehow my fault.
"I ... have no idea."
"Primary language spoken at home." Noah makes a face. "What does this mean? Our primary language? Gideon's? That's sort of why we're here ... "
"Um, it's under family, so I'm guessing ours?"
"Well ... " Noah lowers his pen. The paperwork has defeated him. "What's our primary language?"
"English? ASL? Physical affection?"
"Food?" Noah says.
"Food's a good guess."
He picks up the pen. "I'm writing food, comma passive aggressive."
"Good call. — Hannah Moskowitz

We're not friends, Mark," I reply sadly. "We're strangers with memories. — Kristen Proby

Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all. — Brian Tracy

To will nothing, then, is ..looking ..for that infinite virtuosity that always enters into the game and always runs off — Maurice Blondel

We always see ourselves as constant, and others as less so, no matter what policy shifts we ourselves may have been guilty of. — William T. Vollmann

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold. — John Steinbeck