Marilou Diaz Abaya Quotes & Sayings

I will prove by my life that my critics are liars. — Plato

Did you happen to hear anything about me this afternoon?" "Just how you got thrown off the bridge and Ranger jumped in to save you." "Does Mom know?" "Yeah. She ironed sheets for three hours, mumbling about how she wished you were more like your sister with all the kids and a lawyer for a husband, and how she couldn't understand you not wanting to be a butcher. And then she had a couple nips of booze while she was making supper, and some red wine when we sat down to eat, and she was pretty much in a nice stupor by the time I left. — Janet Evanovich

What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly conceived and gracefully done. This sense of beauty unlocks feelings of pleasure and love and breaks down the barrier between worker and work and commit to work not merely the "thinking" consciousness but the full resources of mind. — Robert Grudin

Interesting people always have a past. — Jeannette Walls

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives. — Paul Reiser

You may be slow to warm up, but once you do, you light up the whole room — Jenna Evans Welch

Genius is sorrow's child. — John Adams

The Lord is my portion, saith my soul." Lamentations 3:24 It is not "The Lord is partly my portion," nor "The Lord is in my portion"; but he himself makes up the sum total of my soul's inheritance. Within the circumference of that circle lies all that we possess or desire. The Lord is my portion. Not his grace merely, nor his love, nor his covenant, but Jehovah himself. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The truth costs.
Lies cost more. — Jennifer Donnelly

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. — John Keats

Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep. — Bob Marley

To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started. — Ayn Rand

Commitments, not feelings, hold life together. — Mason Cooley

Oh! not handsome - not at all handsome. I thought him very plain at first, but I do not think him so plain now. One does not, you know, after a time. — Jane Austen