Equpped Quotes & Sayings

The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously. For example, it has been brought to my attention that our ability to continue to pay the hordes of people employed by M&S (God knows how many mouths have to be fed) depends directly on the number of copies of your new book [Life Before Man] that we are able to sell between September and Christmas. In past I have been able to treat this whole thing as a fun game. I have never been troubled by the cavalier explanations about lost manuscripts and fuck-ups of various sorts. Now I have learned that this is a deadly serious game. I don't laugh at jokes about the Canadian postal service. I cry. (in a letter to author Margaret Atwood, dated February, 1979) — Jack McClelland

The ruling class is the rich ... And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy. — Walter Cronkite

And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem. — Jerry Spinelli

The idea of making pictures abroad is exciting when you're in Hollywood and have never worked in foreign countries. You think you'll get to see the sights and have all the fun that goes with traveling. Actually, you spend so much time on the job that you don't do much else. — Jeffrey Hunter

Pete's a good guy."
"He just slept with my mother!"
"I didn't say he was perfect. — Debbie Macomber

I do believe Jesus died so we could feel freed up to go after life to the full, so we would feel equpped to take risks and not beat ourselves up when we fail. He didn't die to make our lives look perfect. He died so we could stop feeling as if our lives have to be perfect for them to mean something. — Mandy Steward

The NAA way is to operate from a servant's heart, and service will be returned to you exponentially. — Andy Albright

My conscious mind must have its roots and origins in the most unfathomable depths of being, yet it feels as if it lived all by itself in this tight little skull. — Alan W. Watts

Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime. — Derwin L. Gray