Jim Caldwell Quotes & Sayings

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers. — Aleksandar Hemon

Shakespeare," he thought as he scribbled away. "Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived. — Jeanette Winterson

The true measure of a real man is that he has the ability to admit when he is wrong, apologize, and make amends to those he wronged — Richard Ashworth

I'm a quitter. I come from a long line of quitters. It's amazing I'm here at all. — Dylan Moran

I will put my heart and soul into making sure that the care your son or daughter or mum or dad receives is the same I would want for my own family. — Michael Gove

*And to keep her immune system strong she followed Dr. Goodhue's advice to abstain from alcohol, get plenty of fresh air and exercise, and consume a nourishing diet, low in salt. Page 144
"Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.". Page 204
"I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death ... Is the true measure of the Divine within us." ... "I used to wonder, why did God give children leprosy? Now I believe: God doesn't give anyone leprosy. He gives us, if we choose to use it, the spirit to live with leprosy, and with the imminence of death. Because it is in our own mortality that we are most Divine.". Page 307
**"With wonder and a growing absence of fear she realized, I am more than I was an hour ago.". Page 372
**my favorite! — Alan Brennert

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again — Will Rogers

In the midst of poverty and want, Felix carried with pleasure to his sister the first little white flower that peeped out from beneath the snowy ground. — Mary Shelley

The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love. — Tom Ford

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. — Noam Chomsky

Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled. — Joan Didion