Johnny Painter Quotes & Sayings

Faith changes us - faith in something intrinsically good, something other than ourselves, something bigger than ourselves. — Donna Goddard

I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch 'Pet Cemetery' as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldn't sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again. — Jessica Stroup

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so. — Libba Bray

What was interesting about being the needy one was how much in love you felt ... He'd lost the ability to be an asshole. Now he was smitten, and it felt both tremendous and scary. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Logic tells us that there is an end to everything, but then, Christ died on the cross, now there's a forever — Nano

If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell. — Octavia Butler

Either you're a person wondering if you have a soul, or you're a soul who knows that being a person isn't real. — Deepak Chopra

Unless you know yourself, what else can you know? — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

In the dark room she sits and in front of her is a plate and on the plate lies a black hunk of bread the size of a deck of cards. The bread has sawdust in it, and cardboard. She takes a knife and a fork, and cuts it slowly into four pieces. She eats one, chews it deliberately, pushes it with difficulty through her dry throat. eats another and another and finally the last one. She lingers especially on the last one. She knows after this piece is gone there will be no more food until tommorow morning. She wishes she could be strong enough to save half of the bread until dinner, but she isn't, she can't. When she looks up from her plate, her sister Dasha, is staring at her. Her plate is long empty.
" I wish Alexander was coming back" says Dasha. " He might have food for us"
I wish Alexander was coming back, thinks Tatiana. — Paullina Simons

It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil. — N.K. Jemisin

People talk about mainstream fiction and sf as though they were two quite different kinds of writing, and fantasy as well, as though it was quite different. But I think this a false distinction, that it is a labelling that helps librarians, and people who know the kind of thing they like and don't want their prejudices to be disturbed. — Angela Carter

I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

We have to keep up the fight for evidence-based science and policy. — Piers Corbyn

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son. — Maya Angelou

The first moments of being awake are neutral, as they always are, waiting for us to assign memory and meaning from the day before. — Sarah Ockler