Essjay Road Quotes & Sayings

Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport". — Harold Bloom

If people spent more time trying to accomplish their goals, they would have less time to mind other peoples business. — William D. Writer

She hadn't met Earth or Fire, the other two cousins, but she'd filled a couple of library requests for each of them in the past week. If they were around, they would help her. Wouldn't they? — Anne Bishop

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part. — Matthew McConaughey

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone. — Bob Dylan

Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss. — Martha Beck

Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut. — Diplo

If you are opportunity oriented, you will find opportunities all around you. If you are problem oriented, you will see problems all around you. — Debasish Mridha

Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship. — J.D. Greear

If someone asked her just then what memory was, what the purest definition of memory was, she would say this: the street you were on when you first jumped in a pile of dead leaves. She was walking it right now. With every fresh crunch came the memory of previous crunches. She was permeated by familiar smells: wet woodchip and gravel around the base of the tree, newly laid turd underneath the cover of soggy leaves. She was moved by these sensations. — Zadie Smith

Imagine you had a friend who was there for you all the time and you were there for them, but they stopped being there for you as much as they used to which you can understand a little because people have things to do, but then they're around less and less no matter how much you try to reach out to them. Then suddenly one day - nothing - they're gone. Just like that. Then you write to them, and you're ignored, and then you write to them again and you're ignored and finally you write to them for a third time and they barely even want to make the appointment, they're so busy with their job, their friends and their car. How would you feel? — Cecelia Ahern

There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship. — Marcus Tullius Cicero