Laukkanen Quotes & Sayings

I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word 'no' over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I'd get better at my craft. — Sheryl Crow

I'll enter some faculty or other, get a degree in a sunject that doesn't interest me but that will help me earn a living. Painting will just recede to the background, and I'll end up forgetting my vocation. — Paulo Coelho

The top two lines on every prophet's job description look like this: Speak openly and clearly about what God is for. Speak openly and clearly about what God is against. The third and fourth lines look like this: I [God] am with you. Have courage. (But you may have to duck or die.) — Scot McKnight

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Locking away appetite, anger, the fullness of life, anorexia helps cover up whatever struggles inside. With its controlling bouts of bingeing and starvation, of trance and half-life, it becomes a shield to fend off despair and longing and what most of use would see as ordinary responsible behavior. — Carol Lee

If I continue to just get to the playoffs every year, I guess you could say I arrived, but right now I'm just trying to find my way. — Kevin Durant

Wouldn't it be cool to be single in a bygone area? I take a girl to a drive-in movie, we go have a cheeseburger and a malt at the diner, and then we make out under the stars in my old-timey convertible. Granted, this might have been tough in the fifties given my brown skin tone and racial tensions at the time, but in my fantasy, racial harmony is also part of the deal. — Aziz Ansari

Some people were born to face life alone, and this is neither good nor bad, it is simply life. — Paulo Coelho

That's not a good idea. — Colleen Hoover

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around. — Anne Roiphe

Spring has a secret to tell us: life is for beauty and life is for joy. — Debasish Mridha

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film. — Ann Macbeth

If we take the president of GM, they'll make us pay to give him back. (said by a kidnapper) — Owen Laukkanen

Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant, — James Risen

Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike. — David Augsburger