Luomas Surfers Quotes & Sayings

We're only as good as our word. — Sunanda J. Chatterjee

A local butcher offered me money to put in my next book a portrayal of a customer he didn't like that would make him ashamed to show his face in the town. It was like the tradition of the Gaelic poets, who were paid money to write in derision about people. — John McGahern

Maybe its time we stop trying to avoid the truth and let it have its day. — Michael Caine

Sun! Love it but know I should not be in it so much. — Leilani Bishop

When I was in power, I found that experts can't be trusted. For this simple reason: unlike tyrants, they are under no delusion that a country, a people is their body. Under this delusion a tyrant takes everything personally. An expert takes nothing personally. Nothing is ever precisely his fault. If a bridge collapses, or a war miscarries, he has already walked away. He still has his expertise. Also,
people imagine that because a thing is big, it has had a great deal of intelligent thought given to it. This is not true. A big idea is even more apt to be wrong than a small one, because the scale is inorganic. The Great Wall, for instance, is extremely stupid. The two biggest phenomena in the world right now are Maoism and American television, and both are extremely stupid. — John Updike

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible. — Ali Smith

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life
he is a man indeed! — H. P. Blavatsky

In difficult moments it's sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can't, move on to the second best thing. — Ian McEwan

You are a child of God and, therefore, deserve to allow the light of God's love to come streaming into your heart. — Catherine Carrigan

One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career. — Eric Heiden

You are my glue. Without
you, I'd be nothing but broken pieces. — Ellen Hopkins