Leyendecker Art Quotes & Sayings

For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all. — John Ridley

I've got to stop looking at you, like you light my world. You're the dark cloud which brings the rain. You're the hurricane which destroys my peace. You are not the sun. I am my own light. — LeAnne Mechelle

Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances. — Paul Fussell

It felt so weird, to be on the other side, where you were the one expected to offer condolences, not receive them. I wanted my "sorry" to sound genuine, because it was. That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted to say. — Sarah Dessen

The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible. — Kenneth E. Boulding

"As Colorado attempts to build its brand as a healthy state, marijuana "dilutes what you're trying to do." — John Hickenlooper

Writers live with fear. Some writers cannot deal with the fear, and so they quit or refuse to publish. In order to write, you must either ignore the fear or trick it into leaving you alone. The fear is very sly, though and hard to trick. The fear in writing comes from exposing your thoughts, your emotions, your experiences, your ideas, your talent, your intelligence and ultimately your self to public scrutiny and possible scorn. The fear is by no means groundless. You have opened yourself up to the possibility of public humiliations...I sometimes wonder if perhaps the greatest novel ever written isn't gathering dust in some filing cabinet somewhere, simply because its author could not overcome the fear of having it published. — Patrick F. McManus

Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban — William Shakespeare

You are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind. — Garrison Keillor

I wanted to get away. I wanted something of my own. I wanted to be someone's star. — Meg Howrey

Recognition hit Victoria like an unexpected encounter with a bat. — Lynn Raye Harris