Liesse Marshall Quotes & Sayings

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching
they are your family. — Jim Butcher

My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son. — Adriano Giannini

But what makes wage slaves? Wages! — Groucho Marx

What does it remember like? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Manchester United have, since 1991, conquered Europe about as successfully as Head and Shoulders has conquered dandruff — Martin Samuel

Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance. — Rick Warren

Oh, horrible vultureism of earth! from which not the mightiest whale is free. — Herman Melville

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots. — Tom Perrotta

I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy. — Alexandra Roach

An attraction to self-discovery and self-expression can be uplifting and assist us combat epic boredom. The toll of writing truthfully as possible can cause the writer to spiral emotionally out of control. Writing's tempest temperament can prove a fatal attraction and many notable writers succumbed to the dark knight's powerful sword. Too many writers and a cast of dead poets found themselves dangerously adrift on the flowing river of black ink interlocked in a life and death struggle with the creative streams of impulsion colliding with the rocky pods of madness. All artists must fight off the impulse to surrender to the aftershock of madness. The mad vein of stabbing pain that we might think belongs exclusively to ourselves is in actuality the capstone of the blood sport known as communal anxiety. — Kilroy J. Oldster

And then it developed that Campbell was not going to go unanswered after all. Poor old Derby, the doomed high school teacher, lumbered to his feet for what was probably the finest moment in his life. There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters. But old Derby was a character now. — Kurt Vonnegut

Another word for talent is obsession. — Marion Dane Bauer

With a truly tragic delusion," Carl Jung noted, "these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing. — Carl Jung