Meeley Quotes & Sayings

Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat. — Hakuin Ekaku

Since I started CrossFit, I've read and heard about the critics talk about how unsafe it is, and my only response to that is any form of exercise can be unsafe if you don't have the proper coaching, education and guidance. — Bob Harper

In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and full of deeply conflicted feelings. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. It also took me on two intricate journeys, from post-war Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. A profound and suspenseful debut. — Margot Livesey

So love - aside from being pointless - was agony. Love was a soul-eating demon. Love was the most terrible feeling in the world. — J.T. Geissinger

Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.
And alive, for the first time in his life. — V.S. Carnes

I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice. — Pedro Almodovar

Soeur Seraphina gently removed my lace fontanges. It was named for the King's mistress Angelique de Fontanges, who had lost her hat while hunting one day and had hastily tied up her curls with her garter. The King had admired the effect, and the next day all the court ladies had appeared with their curls tied back with lace — Kate Forsyth

Life is fullest when we are most true to ourselves. — Gay Hendricks

A Highlander in full regalia is an impressive sight - any Highlander, no matter how old, ill-favored, or crabbed in appearance. A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored Highlander in the prime of his life is breathtaking. — Diana Gabaldon

In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? — Rainer Maria Rilke

Moderation is like a foreign language. You have to learn that shit when you're young. — Joey Comeau