Joan Didion Sacramento Quotes & Sayings

It took me a long time to get to where I'm at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way. — Bernie Mac

It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento. — Joan Didion

What's better, I thought, to be safe and suffer alone, or to risk pain and actually live? — Amy Plum

The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of language. We should all like to speak poetry at the moment when we truly live, and if we do not speak it, it is because we have an impediment in our speech. It is not song that is the narrow or artificial thing, it is conversation that is a broken and stammering attempt at song. When we see men in a spiritual extravaganza, like Cyrano de Bergerac, speaking in rhyme, it is not our language disguised or distorted, but our language rounded and made whole. — G.K. Chesterton

No man's credit is as good as his money. — John Dewey

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better. — Colin Trevorrow

Well, let's put it this way, you'll be a major by nightfall or dead — Jack Higgins

He worked too hard, smiled too little and dined as one indifferent to both flavor and fate; he clearly was a hero in need of rescue by a princess. — Tom Robbins

I don't think that God says, "Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine." No. For me God says, "Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you. — Elvia Alvarado

Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny. — Charles Forbes Rene De Montalembert

The Holy Spirit truly transforms us. With our cooperation, he also wants to transform the world we live in. — Pope Francis

Did not the Donner-Reed Party, after all, eat its own dead to reach Sacramento? — Joan Didion

The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go. — Jackie Robinson

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. — William Ralph Inge

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children. — Ryan Phillippe

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher) — Seneca The Younger

When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I'm through a series, I'm so drained I don't want to get near the camera. — Cindy Sherman