Drawback Means Quotes & Sayings

It is the Master of Self who is the masterpiece; the life lived is the canvas that reveals the Master's great works. — Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

If you can't talk about it, you can't change it. — Matt L. Rawlins

You can't boycott something you never went to anyway,so why put energy into it? — Ice Cube

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication. — Maxine Cheshire

The suddenness of it all. And the permanence. The lonely reality of the truth. — Kami Garcia

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. — Tennessee Williams

I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it. — Rita Mae Brown

The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote bastardy). This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life, a sinistral and sinister world. The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" (which is much the same thing) in a novel may be led to look for them in this one. — Vladimir Nabokov

What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose. — Willa Cather

It saddens me to think that there are children in America who are hungry every day of their lives. No one can live - and grow - withoiut such a fundamental necessity as food. If we Americans reach out to our own communities, we could end this crisis. — Tim McGraw

I only know what it's like to be an author with social media. I can't compare. I do think we lose the mystery of the author. Today, I get tons of e-mails and Facebook messages from readers, and my goal with Twitter and Facebook is, if someone reaches out to me, I'm going to respond to them. I don't want to be an elitist author who is untouchable. I'm just a regular person, too. I will always respond to everybody. — Matt De La Pena

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential. — Mark Sheppard

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time. — Molly Ivins

I'm telling you that you don't have to choose between smart and sexy. You can have both. You are both. — Sophia Amoruso

Walk with me, but don't follow me blindly. Hold fast to the truth, not to my garments. My body is merely a clay structure; today it is here, tomorrow it shall be gone. If you attach yourself to me today, what are you going to do tomorrow when I am not with you? Attach yourself to God, attach yourself to humanity, only then will you be closer to me. — Peace Pilgrim