Fayelyn Preston Quotes & Sayings

All concord's born of contraries. — Ben Jonson

What is the ratio of the time I spend solving problems to the time I spend scaling successes? — Chip Heath

Disappointment has a horrible taste - I've never liked it myself - the way it burns on the tongue like sulphur and turns your belly to acid. I — Kelly Gardiner

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it? — Jeff Beck

The point is to be compassionately, not cruelly, honest. Tell the person what you have heard that worries you. Allow him to respond. You may be surprised at how much sense his answers make. — Nancy O'Meara

I don't like it if I am being held like a baby. If someone holds me normally, and I'm not being coddled, I feel much more comfortable. — Jyoti Amge

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position. — Annie Leibovitz

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor. — Anthony Edwards

O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God. — Arthur Rimbaud

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now. — David Bailey

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science. — Kathryn Schulz

The area occupied by the Christians in Syria and Palestine, called Outremer because of its location beyond the Mediterranean Sea, was a thin coastal strip extending from Armenia in the north to the borders of the Fatimid caliphate of Egypt in the south. By 1109, the Christian territory was divided into four large states: the Kingdom of Jerusalem, extending from Gaza to Beirut; the County of Tripoli, from Beirut to Margat; the Principality of Antioch, from Margat to Alexandria; and the County of Edessa, which stretched northeast all the way to present-day Urfa. These Latin states were governed by noble courts in much the same way as their counterparts in Europe. They were often rocked by dynastic disputes, which, together with the scarcity of available troops and the latent threat of Muslim attack, put the security of the Christian population in a constant state of uncertainty. — Barbara Frale

There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind. — Ramana Maharshi

Desire to know more. I hope my novel accomplishes this, and I highly recommend the following books that I found very useful: Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh's collected published diaries and books, including Gift from the Sea and The Spirit of St. Louis; A. Scott Berg's monumental biography, Lindbergh; Susan Hertog's biography, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Her Life; and Reeve Lindbergh's memoir, Under a Wing. — Melanie Benjamin

The Squire came to the side of the bed, and put his arms under Dickon, and lifted the boy - in a dead sleep all the time - and carried him out so, at the door. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu