Durwood Black Quotes & Sayings

I've had occasional dark hours, dreary fits, when my life, laid out before me, has seemed bitter and hollow and insignificant ... I forgot the many modest successes of my career and instead saw every failure ... the missed opportunities, the moments of cowardice and disappointment ... I had been very much in love ... [and had been thrown over] for another ... I had rather turned my back on romance after that disenchantment, and the few affairs I had had since then had been very half-hearted things. Now the passionless embraces came back to me ... in all their dry mechanical detail. I felt a wave of disgust for myself, and a pity for the [others] involved. — Sarah Waters

I was trying to create products to complement the pop-up blocker. All these people were giving me their credit cards. I figured I could sell them something else. — Jon Oringer

He turned to look at her, and she was smiling at him. It was Noys as she had been, and his own heart beating as it had used to. — Anonymous

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be. — Alan Alda

But for the moment, I just need to focus on me. My boyfriend (or lack thereof) can't be the most important thing about me. So screw plans and futures and heartache and all of that. — Cora Carmack

Most of my thinking is done at night. — Estelle

We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a bath - at 14 months or something like that. My mother and dad both swore that was true, but I'm sure it wasn't very good ... We always had the Metropolitan Opera on the radio on Saturday afternoons. — Jim Foglesong

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out. — Nicholas Winton

Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights. — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

You have to move on. Enjoy your life. — Lea Agustina Citra