Maybe One Day Melissa Kantor Quotes & Sayings

Social pain does not trigger endorphin the way physical pain does, except for a brief laugh or cry. A broken heart doesn't trigger endorphin the way a broken bone does. In the past, daily life held so much physical pain that social pain was secondary.Today, we spend less time suffering the pain of physical labor, predator attack, or deteriorating disease. Our attention is free to focus on the pain of disappointed social expectations. This leaves us feeling that life is more painful even though it's less painful than in the past. 33 — Anonymous

I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big, long books. — Larry Winget

Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man. — John McGraw

Perseverance is the steady pathway toward prevailing. — Tom Althouse

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. — Mary Cheney

A cupcake temple?' Her chest still tight with anxiety, Bertie forced herself to imagine it: bricks of pound cake mortared with buttercream and chocolate ganache, torches like striped birthday candles set into the walls, pilgrims upon the Path of Delectable Righteousness delivering daily tributes of almond paste and raspberry filling ... — Lisa Mantchev

Everything combines for the works of Merzbow. I don't see them as being different and separate ... Music and art is not separate. I mix rock sounds and art together . — Richard Pinhas

Knowledge means rising above immediacy, beyond self, into the foreign and distant. The object of such knowledge is inherently vulnerable to scrutiny; the object is a 'fact' which, if it develops, changes, or otherwise transforms itself in the way that civilizations frequently do, nevertheless is fundamentally, even ontologically stable. To have such knowledge of such a thing is to dominate it, to have authority over it. — Edward Said

The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult. — Charles Bukowski

She was the one who wanted to be with him, the one who watched and waited for him, who felt his absence badly. — Sonya Hartnett

You can take the boy out of the Devil but not the Devil out of the boy — Richard Kadrey

Give me a hero and I'll give you a tragedy. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life. — Nicholas Jarecki

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music. — David Hockney

Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances. — Bernie Ecclestone