Marcie Leeds Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes they almost made me feel glad that I had a few extra years to play my depression out with therapy and other means, because I think its useful in youth- unless suicide or drug abuse are the alternatives- to have some faith in the mind to cure itself, to not rush to doctors or diagnosis's ... I sometimes worry that part of what creates depression in young people is their own, and their parents, and the whole worlds impatience with allowing the phases of life to run their course. We will very likely soon be living in a society that confuses disease with normal life if the panic and rush to judgment and labeling do not slow down a bit. Somewhere between the unbelievable tardiness that the medical profession was guilty of in administering proper treatment to me and the eagerness to with which practitioners prescribe Ritalin for 8 year old boys and Paxil for 14 year old girls, there is a sane course of action. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Life waits patiently for true heroes. It is dangerous when those aspiring to be heroes cannot wait until they find themselves. — Thich Nhat Hanh

For this was the real desert where differences of race and colour, of wealth and social standing, are almost meaningless; where coverings of pretence are stripped away and basic truths emerge. — Wilfred Thesiger

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it. — Multatuli

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives. — Ron Chernow

I wanted to say, with as much sarcasm as I could put into my voice, "Sir, your poem is both original and interesting, but the part that is interesting is not original, and the part that is original is not interesting." But all I said was, "Not bad, you need to work on it some more. — Helon Habila

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back. — Quentin Tarantino