Livinski Quotes & Sayings

I loved Duncan and I loved being his mother but I wasn't sure I was prepared to be only his mother. Before we were even married, when Russell and I had gotten our dog, Humbert, I had walked him early one morning, and as I stood on a line for coffee, someone had offered him a dog treat. "I always ask the mommy first," she said, looking at him expectantly. "Oh, I'm not his mother," I said, "I'm just his ... friend," and she looked at me with complete contempt. "You're his mother," she had scolded, "Poor dog. — Jennifer Belle

My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!' But they rarely stand still long enough for me to see what and who they are, before they hurtle away again. And so I spend a lot of time running after them, like a thrown rider after an escaped horse, saying 'Wait for me! Wait for me!' and waving my notebook in the air. — Robin McKinley

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives — William James

Please be aware that your exam scores provide you only with your entrance into the school. They do not ensure your ability to stay. — Anne Osterlund

If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric. — Frederick Lenz

Purpose draws potential, potential brings to life Destiny. Understanding you have a purpose is the first brick on the road to Destiny! — Otis Teague

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. — Ernest Hemingway,

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country. — Thomas Jefferson

That name was a sadistic play on the Underground Railroad that smuggled American slaves north. The old Nazis set up their own version and used it mainly to move their people. They called it Die Spinne. — John Pearce

I'll say whatever I want. I'm not a book. You can't burn me! — Kathryn Lasky

The most important thing in life it to be true to ourselves, to never give up attempting to become the very finest version of what we wish to be, no matter how arduous that proves to be. — Kilroy J. Oldster

We can learn that at the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in! Those, for instance, who stretch themselves in service- though laced with limiting diseases-are often the healthiest among us! The Spirit can drive the flesh beyond where the body first agrees to go! — Neal A. Maxwell

There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the experience to really appreciate it. — David Walton

Hans clacked his side-lips. "Do you have the sentence in your head that tomorrow's procession will halt this pest of yours, that it will bar the small-lives from the High Woods?"
"If it is as you say, no. No more than prayer can stay a charging horse. But that is not why we pray. God is no cheap juggler as to play for a pfennig. — Michael Flynn

Believe in your dreams and when people doubt you, prove them wrong. — Sky Diamond