Francis Wolcott Quotes & Sayings

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance. — Anya Seton

Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside ... a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver. — George Allen

I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered it- that no one had ever read it or knew about it. Then one day in her local library she found cards for one or two of my other books. They were full of names- the books were borrowed all the time. She resented this a bit and then walked around the town looking in everybody's face and wondering if they were the ones who were reading my books. That is someone I write for. — J.P. Donleavy

The Old Poets Of China
Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe
that I do not want it. Now I understand
why the old poets of China went so far and high
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist. — Mary Oliver

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure. — Eduardo Galeano

Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat. — Mark Hoppus

Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword. — Idries Shah

100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Some people try to live a life without criticism by shrinking themselves. They try to make themselves invisible. And you know what happens then? It's not just that they diminish themselves, fail to live their best lives, and squander their time. All of that happens, of course. But you know what else happens? People criticize them for being invisible. — Eric Greitens

Look at this lot - how we all threw ourselves into a fight just for him. We're not soldiers. But we know that what we do when we're with him matters. — Scott Tipton

Trust who and what you are, and the universe will support you in miraculous ways. — Alan Cohen

By the fourth or fifth record there was not a lot of time to sit around. We [The Replacements] stopped rehearsing. We stopped getting together and rehearsing. We'd perform, and that would take it all out of us. Then we'd be done touring and we'd be sick of each other. We'd never call each other up and hang out. — Paul Westerberg

Wounds may heal, but the scars remain. — Reyna Pryde

What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right? — Susan George

I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.' — Tom Wolfe