Disallowed Crossword Quotes & Sayings

It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is. — Annette Bening

I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then! — Thomas A. Edison

The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago. — Natalie Gulbis

We drive northwest for an hour to Michigan. Michigan is pretty much like rural New Jersey, except it's flattened out and well planned and pristine. Michigan would be New Jersey if you ran over it with a steamroller, excavated everything, and then put it back in neat rows with lots of space for everyone to move around in. It is practical and pretty, and it's a place where nothing spontaneous happens. This is a place where nothing happens unless people sit around and have a meeting about it first. The people are mostly white, which is weird, and the squirrels are black, also weird. — Wendy Wunder

I have found it very important ... to let go of my wishes and start hoping. — Henri Nouwen

I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals. — Rachel Zucker

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt. — Jim Rogers

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it's not always your heart that betrays you. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Hard and steady and engrossing labor with the hands, especially out of doors, is invaluable to the literary man and serves him directly. — Henry David Thoreau

God longs to listen to our sad songs. He wants to hear our hearts cry out to him, even when we don't understand his plan or are missing the lessons he wants to teach us. He loves to listen to our needs, and it's all right to tell him, Yes, Lord, I'm overwhelmed. Help me, Jesus, please. Do you even remember me? Because all these situations I'm encountering are killing me. I need you, Jesus. When we arrive at this point, we're in a good place. — Rachel Wojo

I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it. — Eli Roth

Your path is yours alone. And if it's the path less traveled, that's absolutely fine. The world doesn't need more conformists. The world needs more people who create and question and search. — Laird Hamilton