John Bede Polding Quotes & Sayings

I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work. — Ashley Tisdale

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books. — Alber Elbaz

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose

You know what may be the oddest thing about being a star? Stars have an effect on people. It's a responsibility, and it's frightening. — Andie MacDowell

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up. — Richard Ford

Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae. — Koren Zailckas

People misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry. — Dorothy Gilman

It's just part of whatever motivates guys and whatever they say. Ultimately it comes down to how well you play. What I've learned over the years, a lot of guys talk. What you need to do is go out there and play, back it up. They've been able to back it up, so that's why it works for them. Hopefully we can go out there and do our talking on the field. — Tom Brady

If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade ... a real change-maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two-dimensional; they're easy to absorb. — William J. Clinton

For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst. — Hannah Arendt

I'll even give you two moments, seeing as how I'm feeling generous." "Thank you ever so much. I'll contact the Vatican straight away to extoll your virtues and petition for sainthood. — Ben Reeder

Like the good Reverend King
I too 'have a dream'
but when I wake up
I forget it and
remember I'm running late for work. — Paul Beatty

I'm not implying that fantasy is for kids. I'm saying that more and more people are finally realizing that there's more to fantasy stories than elves and wizards and goblin armies. — Patrick Rothfuss

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like. — Julian Assange

I've never walked the same path other people found comfortable and I'm not going to start now. — Lora Leigh