Goerz Dagor Quotes & Sayings

If I could choose from all the fathers in the world, Dad, I'd choose you! — John Walter Bratton

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. — Glenn Beck

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I firmly believe that the two most important times in a person's life are when they are born and when they find out why they were born. — Farrah Gray

Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable of, his friends praise precisely those things he knows to be weak or meretricious. The writer who cannot write because nothing he writes is good enough, by his own standards, and because no one around him seems to share his standards, is in a special sort of bind:
the love of good fiction that gets him started in the first place makes him scornful of the flawed writing he does (nearly all first-draft writing is flawed) and his sense that nobody cares about truly good fiction robs him of motivation. — John Gardner

If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security. — Samuel Johnson

I have been blind expecting everything to stay the same. — Philibert Orry

Conveniently then he can forget it all exists. And, after a time only a general notion will remain in his mind, that there are places where he doesn't belong, and those where he seems to fall right in. — Chris Ware