Jorey Erickson Quotes & Sayings

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things. — Kiefer Sutherland

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself. — James McGreevey

I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad. — Alejandro Zambra

I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold. — Ben Cross

Owning and maintaining a fraud had a way of gradually demoralizing one. — Philip K. Dick

Some air you inhale was exhaled by Cleopatra. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The back door popped open, and Claire, fairy wings all a-flutter, pulled Miranda inside. It was like a military operation, only with one hundred percent less camouflage. — Rachel Caine

As long as we're together, I'm ready for anything. — Cassandra Clare

My hand moves of its own volition, probably more out of shock than anything else, and I slap him hard right across the face. The room falls silent, and everyone's looking at me like I'm some kind of crazy person. — L. H. Cosway

And his hair was free, no ponytail, no braid, the long thickness of it waved and curled down his back, over his shoulders and next to his face. I felt my lungs start burning. Holy freaking moly ... my husband was hot! — Kristen Ashley

In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can't pick up a page. All the words slide off. — William H Gass

Hannibal Lecter stole Leatherface's mask and ported the slasher conventions into the thriller for the early '90s. — Stephen Graham Jones

If we cannot heal in one way, we must learn to heal in another. — Sherwin B. Nuland

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself. — Katori Hall

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful. — Robert B. Reich