Drumlines Of America Quotes & Sayings

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials. — Elvis Costello

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are. — Sydney J. Harris

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. — Samuel Butler

Keep your heart alive so the Spirit I send will find you-He'll comfort you, guide you into all truth, and show you when you wander. Let hope prompt your vision of the day of My return. I am out of reach now, but I will give My Spirit to you as a taste of the day when I will consummate My commitment to you. I will find you, no matter how long it takes. — Jan Meyers Proett

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. — Chinua Achebe

For all those years you've protected the seed. It's time to become the beautiful flower. — Stephen C. Paul

Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid ... — Lucy Freeman

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests. — Ayn Rand

Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre. — Leelee Sobieski

Even if I didn't believe I was the kind of person who could stand up to the people who hated me, I wanted to be the kind of person who would. — David Levithan

This is not a problem peculiar to Oklahoma, far from it. Wrongful convictions occur every month in every state in this country, and the reasons are all varied and all the same - bad police work, junk science, faulty eyewitness identifications, bad defense lawyers, lazy prosecutors, arrogant prosecutors. — John Grisham

Ah, well ... I started to say, and then stopped. So that was where he was going; I'd heard it before. Richard had told me that I'd not been standing in my mother's shoes in 1942, when I was born; he'd said I couldn't, or shouldn't, judge her. It was my not forgiving her that irked him-it was my intolerance of her intolerance that bugged him. — John Irving

I follow my heart in almost every instance, and it gets me in trouble most of the time. But I don't care. I think that's the best way I can live. — Freddie Prinze Jr.