Erick Longston Quotes & Sayings

I had formed the habit of treating those parts of my character that were in any way my responsibility to exhortations so wholesome and sensible as to be comical. As a part of my system of self-discipline, dating from childhood, I constantly told myself it would be better to die than become a lukewarm person, an unmanly person, a person who does not clearly know his likes and dislikes, a person who wants only to be loved without knowing how to love. This exhortation of course had a possible applicability to the parts of my character for which I was to blame, but so far as the other parts were concerned, the parts for which I was not to blame, it was an impossible requirement from the beginning. — Yukio Mishima

Scent is the strongest tie to memory. — Maggie Stiefvater

Say no to asphalt! — John Bytheway

I am a chain-smoking, nocturnal, reality show junky. — Brooklyn Hudson

A vigilante masquarading as Robin Hood? Or jus a talented thief with a taste fot the absurd? — Tiffany Snow

There's a natural set of constraints with mobile phones that force you to be a better photographer by acknowledging and observing the world around you. — Kevin Systrom

A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem. — Edgar Allan Poe

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me. — E.W. Howe

Mozart is always a bit of a challenge - you know, even though it is often given to very young singers, it is actually the most complicated to sing in many instances. — Sarah Brightman

And at that moment the alligators burst into the room. — Genevieve Cogman

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove ... instead of twenty. — Vernor Vinge

Did he break it off? Were you too tall for him?"
"We're the same height. Actually."
"Really. That's adorable. Like salt and pepper shakers. — Rainbow Rowell

It was bad enough that he couldn't seem to get the image of her out of his mind, He didn't need to add et skin and a barely there towel to the gallery. — Tiffany Snow

In the eighties, I was fortunate to be one of the young art directors that Jerry Roach, creative director at JWT New York, took under his wing. He taught me how to use typography more visually, to push against design norms and not to rely on preconceived notions of what something should look like. I learned that nuance is everything and to agonize over the details. I have Jerry to thank for driving plenty of people crazy over the years! — John Butler