Hinkley Quotes & Sayings

I do not want him to die. No elf does. However, if every waking moment is a torment to him, then won't it be better for him to seek release?" Neither — Christopher Paolini

There was nothing I could do.
She's a riptide.
I'm just a man without oars. — Karina Halle

If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem. — Lawrence Lessig

It took a moment to recognize Timothy ... her first love. There had been a time when the mere sight of his handsome face had made her catch her breath. It had taken her years to recover from losing Timothy. Now the pain of his loss was muted and somehow apart from her, as if a broken engagement had happened to some other young, naive girl. She looked at him, and all she could think was, Thank Goodness. Thank goodness she's escaped marrying him. — Elizabeth Hoyt

He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible. — Fannie Flagg

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers. — Elton John

I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me. — Sophie Calle

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath. — Richard Dreyfuss

Viper: "The dark wizard and I had a mild disagreement."
Dante: "What sort of disagreement?"
Viper: "I thought he should be dead and he disagreed. — Alexandra Ivy

Listen, then: we are not with you, but with him, that is our secret! For a long time now - eight centuries already - we have not been with you, but with him. Exactly eight centuries ago we took from him what you so indignantly rejected, that last gift he offered you when he showed you all the kingdoms of the earth: we took Rome and the sword of Caesar from him, and proclaimed ourselves sole rulers of the earth, the only rulers, though we have not yet succeeded in bringing our cause to its full conclusion. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sometimes the only reason for us to be somewhere else is to see things from a different perspective. — Leila Summers

Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored. — Randall Terry

My love can be easily bought with a steak from Peter Luger's. — Jami Attenberg

I wasn't angry the night I shot him. — Mark David Chapman

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignation with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. One shuffles flashily but in vain through one's marked cards- the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which involved no real effort, the seemingly heroic act into which one had been shamed. — Joan Didion