Darra Adam Quotes & Sayings

Do you consider shoes unhealthy? he asked, surveying the socks with respectful interest — Louisa May Alcott

It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge. — Margaret Atwood

It's odd how a piece of ground can hold so little of its meaning; though that's lucky, since for it to do so would make places sacred but impenetrable, whereas they're otherwise neither. — Richard Ford

She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with. — Alexander Payne

If in some cases a bit of a nautical Murat in setting forth his person ashore, the Handsome Sailor of the period in question evinced nothing of the dandified Billy-be-Dam, an amusing character all but extinct now, but occasionally to be encountered, and in a form yet more amusing than the original, at the tiller of the boats on the tempestuous Erie Canal or, more likely, vaporing in the groggeries along the towpath. — Herman Melville

I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk. — Jackie Evancho

I don't own Hollywood. — Louis Farrakhan

To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment. — Frederick Buechner

It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself — Carrie Jones

These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths,
With dear companions now passed out of sight,
Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live,
Since love is deathless. Pleasure now nor pride
Is theirs in mortal wise, but hallowing thoughts
Will meet the offering, of so little worth,
Wanting the benison death has made divine. — Lucy Larcom

I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel. — Amy Bloom