Nianer Quotes & Sayings

I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it. — Hilary Duff

Usually when we do something to corrupt our lives, it's usually something to fulfill an ache that we have ... — Rich Mullins

When we get into a relationship of any kind, it is because we want to share, we want to enjoy, we want to have fun, we don't want to be bored. If we look for a partner, it is because we want to play, we want to be happy and enjoy what we are. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and make his thoughts agreeable as well as useful. Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard. — Samuel Johnson

Behold, x the Lamb of God, who y takes away the sin z of the world! — Anonymous

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years. — Michael Connelly

My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I'm in things for the right reasons. — Kevin Durant

Many Christians are either woefully deficient in their knowledge of Scripture or noticeably devoid of any experience of God's power. The Lord never intended this for His people. We have all seen firsthand the joyless intellectual arrogance the absence of spiritual power can produce, as well as the fanatical emotional excess that comes from the lack of theological integrity. — Sam Storms

The main question to a novel is
did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not
story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing. — Sydney Smith

I'd need either really high heeled shoes to avoid tripping over, or I was just expected to shuffle along like a slug... — Nicola Claire

How like a winter hath my absence been
From Thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen,
What old December's bareness everywhere! — William Shakespeare

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there. — Seth

Then sit down and write
or stand up and
write
but write
no matter what
the other people are
doing,
no matter what
they will do to
you. — Charles Bukowski

We weren't so much oil and vinegar as a lit match and napalm. — Lola Dodge

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon