Im Reserved Quotes & Sayings

The spiritual path is an inward journey. On the spiritual path, the external life remains the same, but you begin the inward journey towards the truth. — Roshan Sharma

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand. — Andrew Motion

They moved me and scared me. I replayed the tapes and nailed the source of my fear. The women sounded smug. They were entrenched and content in their victimhood. — James Ellroy

A dangerous glint came into his eyes. "Gabi, if I ever show up in your bedroom in the middle of the nigh, believe me, it won't be to give you a morality lesson."
She felt the promise of that through her body down to her toes. But she said, "If anyone showed up in my bedroom in the middle of the night, I'm likely to shoot them."
He laughed as he shook his head at her. "Of course, you would. — Dana Marton

I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keeps my creative energy high, because I'm constantly rotating projects. The trick is to make sure I don't work too hard and get exhausted. — A.R. Rahman

When an animal comes between the lion and its prey, the animal first becomes the prey before the main prey. — Uzoma Nnadi

I hear better with a pen in my hand. — Alan Judd

Clare offered a half-hearted suggestion. "Well, there are coaches I know who do one-on-one counseling." Bobby shook his head. "No, that doesn't usually work. It takes months and only isolates people. It seems like most of them just use it to prepare for their next job. — Patrick Lencioni

How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known? ... — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations. — Jim Butcher

Graham Greene once said that life was lived in the first twenty years and the remainder was just reflection. So — Paul Kalanithi

I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made the playoffs, or you saw a movie, or a billboard glowing dusky orange and advertising Aruba, or a girl who bore more than a passing resemblance to a woman you'd dated in high school - a woman you'd loved and lost - danced above you with shimmering eyes, and you said, fuck it, let's dream just one more time. — Dennis Lehane

Taking the things that other people thought they deserved to keep was dangerous work. — James S.A. Corey

You arrogant little snot (John Hammond) — Michael Crichton

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church. — Rachel Lambert Mellon