Hawksworth Wood Quotes & Sayings

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time. — James Cash Penney

God sees every secret act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the "only real subject," the ground for everything. It is largely through the novel that man as an individual was established on the European scene. Away from the novel, in our real lives, we know very little about our parents as they were before our birth; we have only fragmentary knowledge of the people close to us: we see them come and go and scarcely have they vanished than their place is taken over by others: they form a long line of replaceable beings. Only the novel separates out an individual, trains a light on his biography, his ideas, his feelings, makes him irreplaceable: makes him the center of everything. — Milan Kundera

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that — George Bernard Shaw

This is the strange thing about life, when people are confronted, they all say that the truth is what they want but when the truth disagrees with them, they balk at it as if it were an unwanted zombie apocalypse that only wants to destroy civilization. — Leviak B. Kelly

It is good to have friends both in Heaven and Hell. — George Herbert

Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous. — Jennifer Coolidge

Grief is an ocean, and guilt the undertow that pulls me beneath the waves and drowns me. — Shaun David Hutchinson

A wave would arrive, all out of breath, but, as it had nothing to report, it would disperse in apologetic salaams. — Vladimir Nabokov

Harry?" Bob asked. "Are your feet wet? And can you see the pyramids?"
I blinked. "What?"
"Earth to Dresden," Bob said. "You are standing knee-deep in de Nile. — Jim Butcher

I felt emptied-out and singing with echoes, unrecognizable to myself: that particular feeling like your own house on the day you move out. — Barbara Kingsolver

Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make. — Joe Jonas

Either we serve God and use money or we serve money and use God. — Os Guinness