Grady Judd Quotes & Sayings

I remember when my daughter was twelve, suddenly a boy started hanging out in front of our house after school. It was this kid, Justin. My office at the time was right in the front, so I just looked out the window. I couldn't write. I couldn't concentrate. I was like, "What are you doing? What do you expect to achieve by standing in front of my house with my daughter inside?" I hated that kid so much. — Cinco Paul

The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel. — Rabindranath Tagore

I'll always remember being called by my mother who beckoned me to look at the screen where a young man was being tortured by the church. Bag over his head, rolling on the ground, crying, suffocating, vomiting while the congression continues yelling chants, "God will save you!" treating him like the devil's child.

It was the first time I've ever doubted God. First time I've ever heard the terms 'Gays, and 'Queers.' I went through a lot in my childhood, but this was the first I've ever been so traumatized. My mom tells me they deserved it and the church tries to justify their actions as if it was the most intelligent excuse in the world. At 12 years old, I knew only one thing. I would never be like them. — Merlin

These words "accessible" and "emotionally available" get thrown at us from agents and editors and publishers - or the reverse - if it's not all goo-ey and sentimental we're told it's "cold" or "uncaring" or "emotionally vacant." In other words, responses to women's writing in particular continue to be "gendered." — Lidia Yuknavitch

Chrissie Hynde is the coolest woman alive, and no man can have her. — Shawn Amos

Eating American-style, you put the knife down and clang. Continental is silent and efficient. — Letitia Baldrige

Keep a smile,
It will enrich your profile.
Don't be sad,
It only effects bad. — Vishal Bhojwani

That was what was cruel about superficial change: it exposed what could never change. — Howard Jacobson

I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition. — Jean Cocteau

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question. — James Nesbitt

An initial perception or impulse has an infinite number of directions it can go. — Darrell Calkins

Life is good, but not life in itself. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Regret is a pointless emotion unless you learn something from it. — BJ Harvey