Majella Murphy Quotes & Sayings

If you believe you are beyond harm, will you go inside? Will you enter this palace so prominent in blood and glory, follow your face through the web-spanned dark, toward the exquisite chiming of the clavier? The alarms cannot see us. The wet policeman lurking in the doorway cannot see us. Come ... — Thomas Harris

What makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147) — Roland Smith

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is very, very dangerous to come between a person and their beliefs. — Louise Penny

I thought the doctor's diagnosis was the first step to mending her. I know now that a diagnosis is taken in like an orphaned dog. We brought it home, unsure how to care for it, to live with it. It raised its hackles, snarled, hid in the farthest corner of the room; but it was ours, her diagnosis. The diagnosis was timid and confused, and genetically wired to strike out. — Christa Parravani

I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform - a very specific look. — Stephen Moyer

It's perfectly okay to paraphrase Nietzche: if you keep your focus, eventually your focus will keep you. Sometimes without parole. — Stephen King

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again. — Sharon Salzberg

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. — Bette Davis

the Muscatonic Summer Music — Carolyn Keene

With every breath, I breathe in so much of inspiration. I feel if there is one thing as free and as important as oxygen, it's inspiration. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be. — Melissa Bank

You have only one life! Take a chance, make a change, and live! — Kim Yannayon

Whenever she was in his arms, she forgot she even had a name. — Julie Ann Walker

With them I gladly shared my all and learned the great truth that where God guides, He provides. — Frank Buchman