Councilman Quotes & Sayings

I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah. — Lupe Ontiveros

I really love learning and working long hours. — Bae Doona

For I had loved Seid even in his darkest hours, even as he cursed me and we rode upon a fine line between ardor and abhorrence — Jennifer Silverwood

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process. — Bill Huizenga

The councilman staggered to one side, his sword clanging on the stones as he clutched at the gushing wound in his neck. — Steven Erikson

I've followed the NBA religiously since I was a kid, and now because of my boy Tony Parker, I'm a huge Spurs fan. — Thierry Henry

Disease may ... be thought of as the negation of the normal. — William Thomas Councilman

Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That's where they shine. — Sylvester Stallone

I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me. The thought of being a lawyer or a councilman or an engineer, anything like that, seemed impossible to me. To get married, to have children, to get trapped in the family structure. To go someplace to work every day and to return. It was impossible. To do things, simple things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day ... was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep. — Charles Bukowski

Of all the people who came before us, Magda, you were the only one who represented truth. I want you to know that. - Councilman Sadler — Terry Goodkind

Don't give up the calling, Magda. Know yourself. Know what you are. Though few would admit it, even those on the council, I truly believe we all need you. - Councilman Sadler — Terry Goodkind

At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is headed. — Tom Rath

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go. — Mercedes Lackey

I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in the area at the time. — James Knowles III

Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of fundamental craft tools that are essential for any genre-including nonfiction. — Georgia Heard

the initial ID is George Thomas Irving. Age forty-six of eight - " "Irving as in Irvin Irving? As in Councilman Irvin Irving?" "Scourge of the LAPD in general and one Detective Harry Bosch in particular. — Michael Connelly

I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night. — Jane Siberry

A model of probity, a steady hand to reassure the grieving, a sober man - a grave man - solid as the pillar of a tomb. A good dose of gangster to the hat to let you know the councilman played his politics old-school, with a shovel in the dark of the moon. Plus that touch of Tombstone, of Gothic western undertaker, like maybe sometimes when the moon was full and Flowers & Sons stood empty and dark but for the vigil lights, Chan Flowers might up and straddle a coffin, ride it like a bronco. — Michael Chabon

I'm still proud of a lot of my jokes when I started. — Amy Schumer

There is no force inherent in living matter, no vital force independent of and differing from the cosmic forces; the energy which living matter gives off is counterbalanced by the energy which it receives. — William Thomas Councilman

I've always found it better to face lies than turn from them — Jonathan Renshaw

The assassin stepped in then, his left hand moving in a high swing that buried its blade in the councilman's neck. — Steven Erikson

Disease may be defined as 'A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment. — William Thomas Councilman