Heilyn Servat Quotes & Sayings

If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you. — Louis Auchincloss

But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality. — Nenia Campbell

You don't have to comment on every boring thing you do." I said. "This isn't Olympic curling. You're just unpacking a suitcase. — Maria Semple

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me. — Zachary Quinto

... the last year had seen women and children carrying [gas] masks about as they carried a handbag or a skipping rope. — Kristy Cambron

Athletes try to get other athletes out and they should have no false starts. — Asafa Powell

It's tremendous: this world, this life. Take it while you have it. — James Salter

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era. — Constantin Brancusi

When the sum of our faith and humility is sufficient, it reaches a type of spiritual critical mass and hope is fostered and grows. A willing heart emerges which generates the ability for us to submit to the process of recovery. — Roger Stark

What did I expect of him? Very little, I promise you. One more dented little face. One more adolescent freak. The usual unusual. One great thing about being in the adjustment business: you're never short of customers. — Peter Shaffer

If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you. — Mahatma Gandhi

The soles of Cynthia Sawyer's shoes squeaked on the damp flagstone walkway that meandered through Hawthorne Manor's formal gardens. Hazy rays of sun kissed the sprint morning dew, glistening on the early-blooming flowers and foliage soon to blossom into a Southern Living-worthy wonderland. Perfect for tiny Maple Creek, Maryland's annual garden party - the most exciting event of the season, especially for the quirky retirees. Last year, crazy old Mrs. Osworth got lost in the winding boxwood maze and called 911 to get "one of those strong young firemen" to come rescue her. She'd said she felt faint, and claimed she'd need mouth-to-mouth resuscitation the moment they showed up. — Tracy March

Elections are rarely perfect. — Richard Holbrooke

If you can get an IPO, don't buy it. Only buy IPOs you can't get. — Vahan Janjigian

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing ... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice — Greil Marcus