Foremost Insurance Auto Quotes & Sayings

I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write? — Ann Patchett

It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout. — Henry Rollins

We've said from the beginning when we traded Richie (Sexson), we're trading home runs for doubles and the ability to manufacture runs ... Doubles are almost better. I mean, home runs are great, but when you've got guys who smack those doubles, you're in good shape, you've got a lot of guys in scoring position. — Ned Yost

Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give. — Saint Augustine

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden. — Roger Zelazny

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing. — Bruno Mars

Women are more complicated communicators than men, who have a tendency to pronounce and bloviate, and that makes for better writing in talky work. — John Allison

My point,' I said, 'is that there's hell in every handshake, never mind an outright and humiliating insult. — Thomas Ligotti

It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time. — Ali Smith

When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding. — Daria Werbowy

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues. — Anthony Trollope

We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. — Robert Gottlieb

Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star. — Bill Bruford

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. — F Scott Fitzgerald