Marilene Smith Quotes & Sayings

Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life. — Paulo Coelho

Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim
letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor. — C.R. Strahan

Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work. — Ernest Hemingway,

Love makes you feel out of control. I think that's how you know it's right. — Jillian Dodd

Therapies administered included but were not limited to: turning things off, then on again; picking them up a couple of inches and then dropping them; turning off nonessential appliances in this and other rooms; removing lids and wiggling circuit boards; extracting small contaminants, such as insects and their egg cases, with nonconducting chopsticks; cable-wiggling; incense-burning; putting folded-up pieces of paper beneath table legs; drinking tea and sulking; invoking unseen powers; sending runners to other rooms, buildings, or precincts with exquisitely calligraphed notes and waiting for them to come back carrying spare parts in dusty, yellowed cardboard boxes; and a similarly diverse suite of troubleshooting techniques in the realm of software. — Neal Stephenson

Jake. From Philadelphia." Then he shook everybody's hand, like he was joining a poker game. Another Jacob. Michael turned to his brother whose eyes — Alice McDermott

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up. — Pierce Brosnan

The idea had always struck Shader as bizarre: entrusting the governance of a country to the whims of an uneducated mob. No sense in it. No continuity. Not to mention that a canny would-be tyrant could easily hoodwink the masses into electing him. It was one small step from freedom to dictatorship. — D.P. Prior

When my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away. — Sharon Creech

Sentimentality is a false sense of self. — Pete Hamill

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton