Miecik Quotes & Sayings

Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path. — Laurie Beth Jones

Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply offended, because I until a year before that had also been such a mother who was at home all the time taking care of her child [ ... ] What has lesser status and is more difficult than raising a child? And what is more important? — J.K. Rowling

Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome. — Rebekah Brooks

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man. — Lady Gregory

Here's another way to put it: You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We're going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don't think I'm going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I'm putting you on a light stand. Now that I've put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand - shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you'll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven. — Anonymous

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity. — Hal David

Not very ladylike. — Rick Riordan

When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it. — Jean-Baptiste Colbert

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. — Elizabeth Drew

He won't walk the woods alone:
He'll only walk the heath.
He blanks out all the lives he's known,
But they survive beneath. — Kate Tempest

I have been working since I was 14, nonstop. — Liv Tyler

That Hellboy gun of Yours? It's not scientifically possible. It flaunts the laws of physics like a teenager on Rumspringa... — Michael R. Underwood

You can't start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relived when they get to democracy that they hang on to it. — John Steinbeck

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. — David Antin

I can't go back and wait and wait ... if [he] isn't going to come. — Alex Flinn