Descibes Quotes & Sayings

Mack once told me that he used to speak his mind more freely in his younger years, but he admitted that most of such talk was a survival mechanism to cover his hurts; he often ended up spewing his pain on everyone around him. He says that he had a way of pointing out people's faults and humiliating them while maintaining his own sense of false power and control. Not too endearing. — Wm. Paul Young

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer. — James Lipton

Yesterday I parked my car in a tow-away zone ... when I came back the entire area was missing ... — Steven Wright

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible. — Joy Williams

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics. — David Miliband

My poignant regret is that I so nonchalantly ended my youth, blithely discarding those remaining seasons in the sun. — Lionel Fisher

The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature. — Peter Medawar

A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he descibes another's — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me. — Nicole Kidman