Concon Rice Quotes & Sayings

Prioritizing listening to their child or adolescent is extremely important. It can be very hard to listen to someone who is upset or troubled without offering advice or suggestions or otherwise telling him or her what to do. — Timothy Carey

I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it. — Amber Tamblyn

Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional. — Philip Yancey

Maybe I was tired and irritable. Maybe I felt a little guilty. I could learn to hate this guy without even knowing him. I could just look at him across the width of a cafeteria and want to kick his teeth in. — Raymond Chandler

My man prefers meat over the bone. — Shakira

When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds there could be no rain, and without rain there would be no flower. — Nhat Hanh

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin. — John Irving

When I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher - "hoping that I like the book as much as he does" - I check first of all how much dialog there is, and if it looks too abundant or too sustained, I shut the book with a bang. — Vladimir Nabokov

the wheel of fate crushes us all — Kami Garcia

God cares more about our next step than our misstep. — Ed Young

I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce. — Cinda Williams Chima

Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers. — Norm MacDonald

I was playing cowboys and Indians in the trees, and then I started hitting the golf club with clubs father sawed off for me, and I began playing right here with my father. — Arnold Palmer

Little Red Riding Hood was a good story, but it wasn't interactive. Sooner or later I wanted to say 'no, I may be Red Riding Hood but I don't care about my grandmother; what I want is heroin and only heroin,' whereas the game had only 'over the river and through the woods' to offer me. Which was a good story, it just might not me mine. — Austin Grossman

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge