Jivest Quotes & Sayings

The first beginnings of wisdom ... is to ask questions but never to answer any. — Flann O'Brien

Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn't see him for 18 months before he died, but I'd met him several times after the accident. What was remarkable was his personal growth in his interior life. — Margot Kidder

To me, fiction writing at any length, in any form, is a feat of radical compression: take the sprawling chaos of human experience, run it through the sieve of perception, and distill it into something comparatively miniscule that somehow, miraculously, illuminates the vast complexity around it. I don't think about short stories any differently than I do about novels or novellas or even memoirs. But the smaller scale of a story is important; the distillation must be even more extreme in order to succeed. It also must be purer; there is almost no room for mistakes. — Jennifer Egan

My oldest son always wants to race. He's kind of like me and it now has carried over to the other two. They're all pretty competitive now. We do stuff in the pool. They're like fish in water. They go all over the place. They're kids. They like to play, have fun and compete with everything they do. — Steve Blake

The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it. — Hedi Slimane

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You're a cynic," Urgit accused.
Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist. — David Eddings

The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me at least, who gave it to you. — George R R Martin

He walked ahead and opened the police station door for the mayor. The office was deserted. Tess was going to help fill Ann's daytime shift tomorrow until he could hire someone else, but that was the last thing on his list of things to do right now. — Karen Harper