Fredward Cullen Quotes & Sayings

You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice. — Anthony Bourdain

At the same time, minor failings or incidental impropriety may, he feels, be interpreted as a direct expression of his stigmatized differentness. Ex-mental patients, for example, are sometimes afraid to engage in sharp interchanges with spouse or employer because of what a show of emotion might be taken as a sign of. Mental defectives face a similar contingency: It also happens that if a person of low intellectual ability gets into some sort of trouble the difficulty is more or less automatically attributed to "mental defect" whereas if a person of "normal intelligence" gets into a similar difficulty, it is not regarded as symptomatic of anything in particular.31 — Erving Goffman

McKinty is an exciting new talent. — Ed McBain

No matter what happens, just read a book if you want read a book. — Anonymous

You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.' — Louis Susman

A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It is together, in an act of imaginary consummation, that the story is born. This act wholly involves us, as any marriage would, and just as no marriage is exactly the same as another, so each of us interprets a story differently, feels for it differently. A story calls upon us ... as individuals-and we like that. Stories benefit the human mind. — Yann Martel

The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change. — Stephen King

Your sacred time is now! Begin to live passionately. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone. — Ubaldo Jimenez

I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll! — Lil' Wayne

Chipmunks have the best instinct: run and hide. — Marty Rubin

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged. — Billy Joel

She made another sweeping gesture that somehow went wrong because she knocked over the coffee pot and I immediately wrote down six new words which Auntie Mame said to scratch out and forget. — Patrick Dennis

There were no rules to grief, but there were rules to life, and in those first few days, the requirements of the living demanded I keep going. — Mary E. Pearson

When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [ ... ] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies. — Jo Nesbo