Famous Stolen Generation Quotes & Sayings

There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it. — Russell Westbrook

It's nice to meet you, Elise," he says, a slow, sexy smile pulling at his lips. "I'm Harlin. — Suzanne Young

I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.' — Elliott Gould

Go ahead, make me mad, I'll just use you in one of my books. — Millicent Ashby

I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist. — Donald Fagen

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept. — Kahlil Gibran

Words kept salted when they cannot be found fresh. Words kept fresh when they cannot be found clean. The words go deeper, far out of reach of vessels, blood vessels bursting, that thick humming in the head. To find the words, just out of reach, beyond my hand, the coral of it, the pearl of it, fish. — Jeanette Winterson

Relax - This won't hurt. — Hunter S. Thompson

If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement. — F.B. Meyer

He pressed bravely ahead with his story, the outlines and preliminary versions of which by now filled two thick notebooks, reorganizing, redrafting, and obsessively re-polishing lines and paragraphs with a jeweler's precision.
But it was not good enough.
He wanted the pages to sing with ideas that had once seemed so important to him, all and everything he knew, and yet they did not, and no amount of diligence was able to bring them to life. The story came to be a burden and weighed more heavily in his hands each time he lifted it out of the drawer. After a few weeks he was reluctant to open the desk at all.
("Talking In The Dark") — Dennis Etchison

I have such trouble, getting all these manuscripts every year by the hundreds, and galleys and so on, because you can tell right away if a person's not in touch; if they want sincerity, or to be right, it's hopeless. If there isn't a primary intoxication with language and playfulness of their own consciousness, it's hopeless. If they just want to be right, well then they'd be better off being a professor, wouldn't they? — Jim Harrison

Normally, we push away the things we're scared of. — Jeff Bridges

We should teach people to value more the eternal values. — Sunday Adelaja