Kiloran De Laperouse Quotes & Sayings

Years of my life were lived knowing that I'd get a book out of them one day. — Jill Soloway

I find that it's a very odd thing to think of competition when you're talking about what I still think of as art. I don't think of competing with actors or filmmakers at all. You do compete, in a way, at the box office, but we're far enough apart when both films are coming out that I'm not concerned with that either. — George Clooney

I'd start by thinking about what's good. Then I'd ask myself how I could make that good even better. — Kiera Cass

The '80s were all about 'Saturday Night's Main Event.' — Freddie Prinze Jr.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. — Baltasar Gracian

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs. — Dolly Parton

The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it. — Nisargadatta Maharaj

Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. — Sterling W. Sill

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. — Nelson Mandela

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin. — William Ames

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. — Samuel Johnson

I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away. — Carolyn Parkhurst

You can guilt yourself into doing anything short-term, but the change will last only as long as the guilt (or fear) does. — Rick Warren

I'm looking for a God that isn't designed by human hands because He's infinitely out of arm's reach. — Craig D. Lounsbrough