Hilka Procraft Quotes & Sayings

In my early 20s, connecting with fiction was a difficult process. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was meaningful, what convinced, and what made sense. — Sarah Hall

Imagination is what you do with your inspiration. — Violet Haberdasher

Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes — Mumia Abu-Jamal

How did this man with the power to terrify me also become the one person who truly makes me feel safe? — Lilah Pace

The opposite of faith isn't doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty. — Claudia Gray

Anytime you get out of your comfort zone and you have to do something that you're not comfortable doing and that you're not real sure of yourself in, there's an exhilaration that comes along with that. I get off on it, so that's why I enjoy making movies. — Trace Adkins

I never have time to write, and I always have a thousand distractions in my way. But still, I write. I write because I'm somehow obligated to do so. I only hope that there are people who feel the same obligation to read my stories. — Aaron B. Powell

I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he happens to be living. I know not whether this mental quality is deserving of censure or commendation, but it proves the incredible pliancy of his mind and the presence of that clear common sense which pardons evil wherever it sees that evil is inevitable or impossible of annihilation. — Mikhail Lermontov

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to. — Rob Corddry

Why did everyone have to ruin the quiet by asking questions? The truth was a disastrous thing. — Victoria Schwab

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them. — Laurie Anderson

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living. — John Locke

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member. — Tommy Shaw

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out. — Jeff Ament