Glancingly Quotes & Sayings

I almost never let reality get in the way of a good story. — Elizabeth Bard

You touched people's lives, glancingly, and those lives changed forever. — Guy Gavriel Kay

When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.' On — Robin S. Sharma

Some people you only like a little, some you only like on certain occasions, and some you only like when you're drunk. But I liked her all ways and all the time. — Sylvia Day

Okay, I said, what's so hot about playing the piano?
She told me that the most important thing was to establish the tenderness right off the bat, or at least close to the top of the piece, just a hint of it, a whisper, but a deep whisper because the tension will mount, the excitement and the drama will build - I was writing it down as fast as I could - and when the action rises the audience might remember the earlier moment of tenderness, and remembering will make them long to return to infancy, to safety, to pure love, then you might move away from that, put the violence and agony of life into every note, building, building still, until there is an important decision to make: return to tenderness, even briefly, glancingly, or continue on with the truth, the violence, the pain, the tragedy, to the very end. — Miriam Toews

What I need is a lawyer who specializes in the law of the jungle. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind. — Guy Kawasaki

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship. — Michelle Trachtenberg

I'm a chava, a young one. — Thalia

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at. — Tim Crouch

Even though the popularity and the fanbase is much much greater, and more people have heard about me through things like the Grammys and the Ivors and touring and word of mouth, it doesn't reflect in the sales of the record and doesn't go into my pocket. — Imogen Heap

I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life. — Tim O'Brien

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer
and that is the way he has acted through most of history.
Atlast Shrugged — Ayn Rand

Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a thing, because this thing would be everything. Nature is not a creature, because this creature would be God. But one can consider it as an immense vital power, which encompasses all, which animates all, and which, subordinated to the power of the first Being, has begun to act only by his order, and still acts only by his concourse or consent ... Time, space and matter are its means, the universe its object, motion and life its goal. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you've come to mow its lawns. — David Sedaris

Associations are both subtle and powerful. — Jim Rohn

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side. — Emma Donoghue