Kahlila Merriman Quotes & Sayings

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms. — John Leonard

Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy ... if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field. — Johnny Cash

The faintest scraping-ticking arose as the knuckles of the hinge leafs turned against pivot pins in need of oil, and the door swung ever so slowly into the kitchen, — Dean Koontz

When I say that deciding to not kill myself was the worst part, I should clarify that I don't mean it in a retrospective sense. From where I am now, it seems like a solid enough decision. But at the time, it felt like I had been dragging myself through the most miserable, endless wasteland, and - far in the distance - I had seen the promising glimmer of a slightly less miserable wasteland. — Allie Brosh

I'm an actor, and I think some of us who are drawn to this work know what it is to desperately want to be loved and validated: to be good at something and not be able to do it; to come in second on countless projects; or told that you were the first choice, but the part went to that guy who had that TV show in the '90s. — James Snyder

Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun. — Richard Branson

Argument is the worst sort of conversation. — Jonathan Swift

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world. — Charles Baxter