Emrick Quotes & Sayings

Don't hesitate to accept hospitality, because those who work deserve to be fed. — Anonymous

Peculiar trait of the western people, thought Grant, that you could sleep with their wives, despoil their daughters, sponge on them, defraud them, do almost anything that would mean at least ostracism in normal society, and they would barely seem to notice it. But refuse to drink with them and you immediately became a mortal enemy. What the hell? He didn't even want to think about the west or its people and their peculiarities. Let them be. Once he was in Sydney, who knew, he might never come back. — Kenneth Cook

Be proud of being humane, not human! — Vinita Kinra

In a paradise with sweet laughs for bird-notes, and blue eyes for a heaven. — George Eliot

From Eden's bowers the full-fed rivers flow,
To guide the outcasts to the land of woe:
Our Earth one little toiling streamlet yields.
To guide the wanderers to the happy fields. — George MacDonald

I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical problems, but I wouldn't sit down with him and talk about the distant past. It's somewhat in contrast to other Americans, who feel that they have to confess things, but I'm really not like that. — Joyce Carol Oates

Too much study depletes the soul of its strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Darcy looked at her sister for a beat, deciding whether or not to tell her about her strange dream. Grace knew more than anyone about the dark secrets of Darcy's life, but not even her sister knew it all. And Darcy wanted to keep it that way. "I — K.J. Emrick

Do I then strive after happiness? I strive after my work! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings. — Eugene O'Neill

There are people who make a hobby of telling others what they can do and what they can't do. I've learnt to not listen to those people. — Omar Samra

Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time. — Bobby McFerrin

I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want. — Angie Harmon

In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well known just before they die, or sometimes after they have died. I think these people start to be artists after they've stopped existing. — Rokia Traore