Nickisilcox Quotes & Sayings

What you're experiencing isn't a dry spell. It's a dust bowl. Tell me, do you find cob webs in there every time you get yourself off? — Parker S. Huntington

The greatest requirement placed on fallen humanity was not one of responsibility but one of relationship. (The Lonesome God) — Jonathan R. Walton

A river shaped her,
smoothed her with sand and battered
her against the shore, and she
resisted, she is still here. — Margaret Atwood

I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I have the audacity to think it's going to interest anybody else? — Alexandra Cassavetes

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster. — Sarah Josepha Hale

He hadn't meant to get so angry at Morgan. He didn't often get angry at other people. There was no sense in it. The person you were angry at was rarely ever repentant. Now, getting angry with yourself had some merit. It showed you had sense enough to chastise the one person who had any hope of benefiting from it. And he was plenty angry with himself. For many things. — Sarah Addison Allen

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me. — Shakira

Nothing can be preserved that is not good. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The big problem is that your mind keeps
reminding you of things when you can't do
anything about them. It has no sense of past or future. That means that as soon as you tell yourself that you need to do something, and store it in your RAM, there's a part of you that thinks you should be doing that something all the time. — David Allen

Ah? Oh, it means honeylips, all right. More or less." "But - " "It's no your mouth he was referring to, Sassenach," Jamie said dryly. — Diana Gabaldon

Now, at peace, Jordan has few resources but is full of plans. Mohammed Noufal observed with a smile, All we need is Israel's technology, Egypt's workers, Turkey's water, and Saudi Arabia's oil, and I am sure we can build a paradise here. — Mark Kurlansky

After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere — Julius Caesar

One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important. — Bertrand Russell

In the end all we have ... are stories and methods of finding and using those stories. — Roger Schank