Eckbert Perry Quotes & Sayings

Only what you choose is what makes you. — Ross Turner

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose. — Jesse Jackson

The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time. — Steve McQueen

It's not easy. It's not supposed to be easy. Most people make mistakes. Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once. — Po Bronson

In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity. — John Biggins

For a gift that does not find balance and a service that is not returned are worth less than a curse. — Mark Helprin

He sighs and brushes a strand of hair behind my ears. I open my eyes to see him staring at me with such tenderness it makes my heart bleed.
"This isn't going to be easy," he says. "But I want to be with you and I can't think of any other way. We can hide it from everyone for a while, if you want, but I'm not ashamed and I'm not afraid. — Karina Halle

What was it, she wondered, this need to brandish his shiny new metropolitan life at her? As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her. Even so this would be the third girlfriend, lover, whatever, that she had met in the last nine months, Dexter presenting them up to her like a dog with a fat pigeon in his mouth. Was it some kind of some sick revenge for something? Because she got a better degree than him? Didn't he know what this was doing to her, sat at table nine with their groins jammed in each other's faces? — David Nicholls

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. — Jean Cocteau

Maturity, Bokonon tells us, is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists — Kurt Vonnegut