Micciah Quotes & Sayings

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier. — A.J. Darkholme

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else. — Joshua Slocum

The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in those spots if it were not for the speaker's approval. — Joseph Crowley

It was so easy to defy once you got started. The first step was the only one that really counted. — L.M. Montgomery

The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them. — Mercedes Lackey

For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evaluation of the interrelationships among the components of the present-day society. — Claude Levi-Strauss

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart. — Edna O'Brien

Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it? — Bill Hicks

Love is the bone and sinew of my curse. — Sylvia Plath

Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations spun endlessly to disguise the simple fact that all one's energy, passion, appetite and ambition have been aborted. — Al Alvarez

Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Your body and spirit, subconscious and conscious - every portion of you recognizes home. That is why on the moment of arrival, your entire being relaxes into a contented puddle of joy. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I don't allow Hollywood to define my joy, my happiness, and my peace because you'll be screwed. You have to be very careful. — Tia Mowry

If it was my job to clean the kitchen after dinner,then that damn kitchen was going to sparkle so bright you'd need sunglasses for your midnight snack."
"That's frightening."
Responding to the humor in his eyes, she nodded. — Nora Roberts

The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in. — William Barclay