Hessinger Quotes & Sayings

My favorite micro-short story is by Ernest Hemingway:

For Sale: Baby shoes. Never worn. — G.M. Potter

Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity. — John Guare

When Hamish and I loved each other for a whole year without making love, I did not realize that I had set the mould of my whole life. One could find endless reasons for our abstinence
fear, virtue, ignorance, perversion
but the fact remains that the Hamish pattern was to be endlessly repeated, and with increasing velocity and lack of depth, so that eventually the idea of love ended in me almost the day that it began. Nothing succeeds, they say, life success, and certainly nothing fails like failure. I was successful in my work, so I suppose other successes were too much to hope for. — Margaret Drabble

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's. — Aaron Levie

So I would teach myself to live in constant uncertainty, moment by moment, step by step. I would live as if I were dead already. With nothing to lose, nothing could surprise me, nothing could stop me from fighting; my fears would not block me from following my instincts, and no risk would be too great. — Nando Parrado

I look most like myself ... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses. — Junot Diaz

That the different Christian confessions, aware of the need for a new evangelisation in this period of profound transformations, may be committed to announcing the Good News and moving towards the full unity of all Christians in order to offer a more credible testimony of the Gospel. — Pope Benedict XVI

It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty. — King James I

My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it. — Michael Marshall Smith

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching. — Tony Gilroy

I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people. — Sonia Rykiel

It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland. — Ellen Key

[T]he ideals and desires of the majority define the structure of society as it is; a would-be mass movement that pursues a different path will reliably find itself failing to attract members, while a mass movement that reshapes its message to attract a large audience will inevitably turn into a mechanism for replicating the existing order of things. — John Michael Greer

If thirty-two is old and decrepit, what does that make you, old man?" "Very valuable in the antique market." Dr. — Marissa Meyer

Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid. — Alfred Hershey