Maryanna Clarke Quotes & Sayings

It's not how pretty you are or how talented you are. It's that if these five people on this day in this room like you, then you get a job. — Nicole Ari Parker

On the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future. — Lauren Oliver

Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will. — Criss Jami

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. — Tony Blair

She's still clinging to the side of her mountain, just like I'm still wandering lost in my battlefield. — Sabaa Tahir

God has a plan for each of our lives. As hard as it is to understand and as painful as it might be, sometimes that even means Him allowing bad things to happen in order for His purpose to be fulfilled. — Cherlisa Starks Richardson

he said we should concern ourselves only with today, because the lilies in the field toil not, neither do they spin, but arrayed in glory. ... — Paulo Coelho

The exuberant Husky crew gingerly hoisted Walling out of the shell and sent him off to the hospital. Astonished fans and journalists gathered around them on the dock, peppering them with questions: Was the University of Washington in the District of Columbia? Where exactly was Seattle, anyway? Were any of them really lumberjacks? — Daniel James Brown

Don't come, I was thinking now. Wherever you are, stay there. Because with her reduced to a fantasy, I could imagine a wonderful meeting. I could see her smiling, tossing her red-haired head, staring at me with inquisitive eyes. I'd say something meaningful to her, and she'd melt for me. Reality could not live up to that. — Scott Adlerberg

I tell everybody, I'm tired of being jerked around. Okay? So let's just not pretend. I don't have fuck for a heart. You people are not going to make me feel anything. You are not going to get to me. — Chuck Palahniuk

And the wind was alive the day they put Jane into the ground; it played over the plateau and made the sound of rain in the tree and in the long dry grass. And Talmadge was relieved: for the sound hid them all from each other, and Della in her grief. Her hair blowing over her face as she stood beside the grave, unmoving. — Amanda Coplin

I started singing at age three - I opened my mouth some time, singing along to the radio, and my parents were like, 'Wow! You have a really great voice!' — Rain Phoenix

Lips, like roses dropping myrrh. — George Sandys

Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it. — Aleksandar Hemon

Never get out of bed before noon. — Charles Bukowski