Expressable Speech Quotes & Sayings

How do you survive for years in prison? You don't think about years, or months, or weeks. You think about today - how to get through it, how to survive it. When you wake up tomorrow, another day is behind you. The days add up; the weeks run together; the months become years. You realize how tough you are, how you can function and survive because you have no choice. — John Grisham

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs. — Steven Curtis Chapman

God knows us in all our conniving, self-centered, and jealousy-laden splendor and loves us anyway. — Tullian Tchividjian

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows. — Alfred The Great

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. — Edward Hirsch

As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded. — Deborah Sampson

The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. — Augustus William Hare

For younger kids, repetition is really valuable. They demand it. When they see a show over and over again, they not only are understanding it better, which is a form of power, but just by predicting what is going to happen, I think they feel a real sense of affirmation and self-worth. — Malcolm Gladwell

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well. — Plato

What I remember most is that the laws of physics no longer seemed to apply. Gravity was backwards and the world was, I'm quite certain, moving in slow motion. His pull wasn't a pull; I was just falling upward, and he caught me. There really was no beginning or end to the kiss; it wasn't even really there- and because of that, it was tremendous. Our lips were just four sweet, shy people meeting, saying, "Hello, it's nice to meet you." But what passed between them was massive. Nuclear. And in an instant, every cobweb inside me was obliterated. My inner struggles, my uncertainty, my fear of tiger attack ... gone. Just the feeling of being a newborn, a pure soul just waiting to be imprinted upon. — James Patterson

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

You CAN make an omelette without breaking eggs. It's just a really bad omelette. — Stephen Colbert