Creagh Concrete Quotes & Sayings

Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders. — Bruce Coville

Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes. — Sara Sheridan

People with the growth mindset know that it takes time for potential to flower. — Carol S. Dweck

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. — Charles Evans Hughes

I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao. — Manny Pacquiao

How did pretty little Anna go from Westchester suburb brat to New York hooker? Now that's a story. — Stacey Trombley

O night in which the stars feign light, O night that alone is the size of the Universe, make me, body and soul, part of your body, so that - being mere darkness - I'll lose myself and become night as well, without any dreams as stars within me, nor a hoped-for sun shining with the future. — Fernando Pessoa

His hair was dark as the shadows of twilight. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Don Jaime relied on this to conserve what he defined as serenity: peace of mind and soul, the only fragment of wisdom to which human imperfection could aspire. His whole life lay before him, smooth, broad, and definitive, as untroubled by uncertainty as a river flowing to the sea. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful. — Jeff Tweedy

I've known both misery and happiness, lived in so many different skins it is impossible for one skin to claim me. And I have felt like a wayfarer on an alien planet at times - walking, running, wondering about what brought me to this particular place, and why. But once I was here the dreams started moving in, and I went about devouring them as they devoured me. — Gordon Parks

Stop looking in the mirror and forget how you look like; we are all special the way we are. — M.F. Moonzajer

The present will not long endure. — Pindar

When you're corked...you're corked! — Cheryl Nielsen

Theology is a subject without an object. Theologians don't study God - they study what other theologians have said. The claims — Jerry A. Coyne