Marigny Quotes & Sayings

While you're sitting there wondering why you've kept all the rules and you still haven't achieved everything you've been promised, someone else has been breaking all the rules and seeing all the success that comes from doing so. — Dan Pearce

The risk of love is loss and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love — Hilary Stanton Zunin

There's a difference between the 'art' of writing and the 'craft' of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, but craft is objective. There is a right way and a wrong way to craft. — Gerard De Marigny

I won't take you for granted."
"You don't take me for granted."
"Yes," she said, "I do."
"You just get caught up - "
"I take for granted that you'll be there when I'm done doing whatever it is I'm doing. I take for granted that you'll love me no matter what."
"You do?"
"Yes. Neal, I'm so sorry."
"Don't be sorry," he said. "I want you to take that for granted. I will love you no matter what. — Rainbow Rowell

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make. — Kendrick Lamar

The caretaking has to be done. "Somebody's got to be the mommy." Individually, we underestimate this need, and as a society we make inadequate provision for it. Women take up the slack, making the need invisible as we step in to fill it. — Mary Catherine Bateson

The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host. — Gerard De Marigny

The horn that wakes the sleepers! The shield that guard the realms of men! — George R R Martin

When it comes to cooking and eating, I always try to preach that life is about moderation. Even if I'm having beef for dinner, it's probably going to be a 3-4 ounce portion with heaps and heaps of vegetables. — Michael Symon

Many weighty books on magic that looked as if they had been bound in human skin at the beginning of time but had probably been mass-produced last week by a factory in Catford. — Jonathan Stroud

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument. — Al Pacino

A sharp character - no youth as I feared - a Faubourg Marigny type, Mediterranean, big-nosed, lumpy-jawed, a single stitched-in wrinkle over his eyebrows from just above which there springs up a great pompadour of wiry bronze hair. His face aches with it. He has no use for me at all. — Walker Percy

As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar! — Gerard De Marigny

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something. — Anthony Doerr

A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. — Gerard De Marigny

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. — Mercedes Lackey

Goals are your destinations in life; objectives are the stops along the way. — Gerard De Marigny

A golden prince was easy to love if you did not have to watch him picking wings off flies. — C.S. Pacat

When people communicate deceit, it's called politics. When people communicate honesty, it's called art. — Gerard De Marigny

To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions. — Gerard De Marigny

There's something to be said about drinking a carafe of wine by yourself ... I just can't remember at the moment what it is! (said after drinking a carafe of wine by himself) — Gerard De Marigny

Of all the most devastating sounds in the universe, silence is the most powerful. — Gerard De Marigny

Bravery is not the trait of a fearless person, lest the reckless actions of a fool be considered brave. Bravery is the quality that allows us to overcome our fears and succeed. — Gerard De Marigny

things which become known by revelation have the force of certain truth, and that those things which war against faith war equally against right reason, the Catholic philosopher will know that he violates at once faith and the laws of reason if he accepts any conclusion which he understands to be opposed to revealed doctrine. — Catholic Way Publishing

The supernatural, and all it represents, is profoundly abnormal, and therefore unreal. Few would argue with these conclusions. Fine. Now the highest aim of the realistic horror writer is to prove, in realistic terms, that the unreal is real. The question is: "Can this be done?" The answer is: "Of course not." One would look silly attempting such a thing. Consequently, the realistic horror writer, wielding the hollow proofs and premises of his art, must settle for merely seeming to smooth out the ultimate paradox. In order to achieve this effect, the supernatural realist must really know the normal world, and deeply take for granted its reality. (It helps if he himself is normal and real.) Only then can the unreal, the abnormal, the supernatural be smuggled in as a plain brown package marked Hope, Love, or Fortune Cookies, and postmarked: the Edge of the Unknown. — Thomas Ligotti

Stand for Him, Druet; even if all others in this kingdom stand against Him. — Nicole Sager

The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician's loneliness echoes in his performance. — Gerard De Marigny

Success can be defined in many ways but failure in only one ... quitting! — Gerard De Marigny

Of all the hardships and deprivations a people can suffer, I am not sure if the deprivations of art and culture are not the most devastating. As meat and rice are food for the body, art and culture are food for the soul. Starve the body and the person dies; starve the soul and the spirit dies. — Gerard De Marigny

I told a doctor once, Doc, if you want to know what's inside of me, put down the x-ray and pick up my novel! — Gerard De Marigny

God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future, in a book. For me, there is no more noble a cause and no more honorable a vocation than to say, like Him, I am a writer. — Gerard De Marigny

Ideas are like the flint stone of wondrous works. You scratch at them until a spark flies ... then the world catches fire. — Gerard De Marigny