Hocher Quotes & Sayings

I practice Dying--every night--
But have not learned to, still--
Though Talented--by Mortal bones--
For such a common Skill. — Alan W. Powers

He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really people without resentment, without hate, she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet are utterly unaffected by it? Of course there are. Countless, the living and the dead. Those who have returned in pure compassion to the wheel, those who follow the way that cannot be followed without knowing they follow it, the sharecropper's wife in Alabama and the lama in Tibet and the entomologist in Peru and the millworker in Odessa and the greengrocer in London and the goatherd in Nigeria and the old, old man sharpening a stick by a dry streambed somewhere in Australia, and all the others. There is not one of us who has not known them. There are enough of them, enough to keep us going. Perhaps. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. — Harlan Coben

Why don't you take off your shirt?" he finally asked. "I bet you say that to all the girls. — Sarah Addison Allen

I never did think I had brain damage. — Leon Spinks

Our stupidity has turned the world into a hand grenade. Our greed has pulled the pin. — Grant Morrison

We have met the enemy and they are ours. — Oliver Hazard Perry

Parents took honor from a daughter who was a teacher. — John Steinbeck

Always remember the answers come not from the rock, the teacup, the shell, or the cards. The answers come from you. — Gwendolyn Womack

Listen -

You are not a lonesome freeway with a history
of accidents, or the damaged record of
every pair of palms that tried to unravel you. You are
not a regret, not a letdown. Here you are, living
like a scarlet war - no part of you wants to be
real. This is when you need to open like a bud
to the arms that hold you, even if you prefer to run
from the sun into the shadowy sirens that call
your name like a prayer.

Repeat after me - you are a vessel of roses, and
you wont always be in bloom, but I promise that
the frost never stays for long. I promise that the
light will find you. — Bianca Sparacino

You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face. — Simone De Beauvoir

No one's quite like you, boy, and thank God for that. You wouldn't have stopped until you'd taken everything that was bolted down." "I brought it all back. — Kit Rocha

You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed. — Mike Wallace