Deedee Myers Quotes & Sayings

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else. — Bum Phillips

This gauntlet, flung down by a bullying, contemptuous universe that allowed human beings to grope their way to sentience just so it could put them in their place that bit more painfully. — M.R. Carey

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. — Oscar Wilde

If it is possible to be homesick for the world, even places one has never been and knows one will never see, this book is the child of such homesickness. — Huston Smith

Guns don't walk into a theater by themselves and shoot people. You have to look at who's behind it, who's behind the trigger? — Kimberly Guilfoyle

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. — James Baldwin

Effective as perspective is ... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula. — Graham Collier

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar. — Mal Peet