Collagist Jean Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the dark. "And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them. — Robin Hobb

So it came to pass that as he trudged from the place of blood and wrath his soul changed. — Stephen Crane

I never saw "being different" in and of itself as the point to "being Goth"
dressing different from most others, maybe, but the point to me was to get together with people who liked the same music and clothes, or at least very similar music and clothes, and go to clubs, go to movies, go to coffee-houses and hold poetry readings and, in general, just have some good harmless fun. Did I look like a dork? Sure, but so did everybody else in the club. We weren't "being different", at least not all of us, we just were different and the point was to stop bitching about being different and just have fun. — Ruadhan J. McElroy

A story might help you get through your life, he said, but it doesn't literally keep you alive -- if anything, most often people who have power turn their story into a brick wall keeping out somebody else's truth, so that they can continue the life they believe themselves to be leading, trying somehow to preserve the idea that they're good people in their small lives, despite their involvement, however indirect, with bigger evils. — James Hannaham

All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown. — Oprah Winfrey

Sharing money is what gives it its value. — Elvis Presley

He wondered if it was safe to grin. Very slowly and carefully, he grinned. It was safe. — Douglas Adams

It seemed that I could tell the whole story pretty powerfully in those 18 months between October of '62 and the spring of '64 when they were all at their peak. And yet you could see some of the shadows of Detroit's demise coming. — David Maraniss

Money is usually attracted, not pursued. — Jim Rohn

You can't has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours. — Wil Wheaton

That dawn he officiated at the daily mass of his ablutions with more frenetic severity than usual, trying to purge his body and spirit of twenty years of fruitless wars and the disillusionments of power. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake — Rohinton Mistry

Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists. — George F. Will

God accommodates [Moses'] complaints and makes in-course corrections. God does not take a human being so fully into the divine confidence--you might say, God does not depend on a human being so fully--until Mary conceives by the Holy Spirit. (pg. 16) — Ellen F. Davis

I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school. — Paul Schneider