Lavaughn Miller Quotes & Sayings

The old man heard the music of the imperialists issuing from the golden hotel, heavy with the gaiety of despair... — Salman Rushdie

Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness. — Gary Zukav

Sometimes you have to accept that your heart knows what to do — Jeanette Winterson

Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one's true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling. — John Dewey

Lunacy is when you can't see the seams where they stitched the world together anymore. — Richard Bachman

It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art of blaming the agency for their own failures. I seize the earliest opportunity to assume the blame. — David Ogilvy

Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying to put yourself back in that context, its more nuanced, less black and white. More traumatic, but also more exciting. When I knew I had to write about things that would be painful, I put off doing it for ages. But then eventually the fear of not doing it becomes greater than the fear of doing it. — Damian Barr

sum up Casablanca in just four clipped, declarative sentences: "Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back again. Boy gives up girl for humanity's sake. — Noah Isenberg

The landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment. — Jasper Fforde

Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement. — Albert Camus

And a bird who was on a crooked branch is suddenly gone without my even hearing him. — Jack Kerouac