Deik Knife Quotes & Sayings

Draw what you see. — Arne Glimcher

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars. — Michael Drayton

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it. — Shane Black

Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy. — Molly Ringwald

Thus once more I found confirmed on all sides the simple, clear, important, and practical meaning of the words of Jesus. Once more, in place of an obscure sentence, I had found a clear, precise, important, and practical rule: To make no distinction between compatriots and foreigners, and to abstain from all the results of such distinction, - from hostility towards foreigners, from wars, from all participation in war, from all preparations for war; to establish with all men, of whatever nationality, the same relations granted to compatriots. All this was so simple and so clear, that I — Leo Tolstoy

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help. — A. N. Wilson

Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die. — Frederick Lenz

No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction. — Seneca The Younger

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing. — Martin Scorsese

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy. — James Dyson

I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that's where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing. — Dean Koontz

His love for his children bore down on his heart with the weight of three heavy stones. There were all his unnamed fears for them, and hopes for them. There was all he was powerless to change, including who they were
one too mild, one too easily tempted to be cruel, and the little girl (it was the weight of a heavy stone against his heart) a mystery to him, impossible to say what she, through her life, would need. And soon, one more. — Alice McDermott

I slide down and sit on the shower floor and just let the scalding hot water run over me until I don't have any tears left. — Randi Cooley Wilson