Kirk Nugent Quotes & Sayings

It's precisely the sense that we're different that makes us so banal. — Daniel Kehlmann

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons. — Andrew W.K.

My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that. — Sonja Sohn

every time she remembered something painful, she could lift it up with her hands in worship or prayer and God would take her brokenness like an offering. — Nancy Alcorn

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters. — Allison Janney

Unscripted, unedited, and wholly authentic people are almost universally admired, especially if they have flaws, are not afraid to make live, red-blooded mistakes, and rather than trying are busy simply being. Which is something you should consider hiring a tattoo artist to script across the palm of your hand: Be, Don't Try. "Oh my God, I can't do that. I would totally mess up." You better pray to the corn god that you do. Messing up is how you tell other people, "It's okay to like me, because I'm just like you." Everybody feels a bit like a dented can inside. Even the slickest, most polished person you can think of is more aware of their shortcomings and flaws than their talents and gifts. — Augusten Burroughs

My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn't grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them. — Tom Tomorrow

I think it's taken me this long to really trust myself, but now I do, I really do. Thanks to my experience and wisdom, I've learned not to be so naive and trusting. Today I question everything and listen to my instincts ... — Deborra-Lee Furness

Attention leads to connection, connection to regulation, regulation to order, and order to ease (as opposed to dis-ease), or, more colloquially, to health. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

this very act of consenting to its loss of control is itself the critical event of all crisis. To give up ones stature as the director of ones own existance: this is, for us, the ultimate death, the crisis that undermines our being in the most radical way. — Jerome A. Miller

it felt like years spent piecing together coincidences, and all he had made from it was a strange cloth - too heavy to carry, too light to do any good at all. "Mr. — Maggie Stiefvater