Notable Friends Quotes & Sayings

All that I wanted was to tempt into life things that wanted to come out of me. — Andrei Tarkovsky

An investment in education always pays the highest returns. — Benjamin Franklin

When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream. — Henry Reed

[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that the first text one writes is neither written for others, nor because one is what one is: one writes to become other than what one is. One tries to modify one's way of being through the act of writing. — Michel Foucault

When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts. — Susan B. Anthony

The best advice I could give is be yourself. Before I was on the American Idol show I made goals for myself. I said, "Who do I want to be, and what will I compromise, or won't I compromise?" And then, I stuck with that. — Carmen Rasmusen

I'd have to say that the things that mean the most to me are the examples of original comic art that I'm able to look at every day, most of them either by notable friends and/or for projects that I've worked on. — Chip Kidd

I don't believe in predestined fate. The future is what we choose to create. — Jim Davidson

If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them. I am just a link in the process. If I don't take anything personally, then I can do great work without flagging. The Dalai Lama once said, 'Try with all your might - to work very, very hard - to make the world a better place, and if all your efforts are to no avail ... no hard feelings!' — Bo Lozoff

They would fade away-and I would be left alone to face the people at school,and the reporters,and Adriane,and all the places where Max had taken my hand or breathed in my ear or told me he loved me,and the emptiness that used to be Chris. — Robin Wasserman

Looks like I'm going to have to kill him with kindness. That's the way Gran always taught me to treat people who were mean to me. — Michelle A. Valentine

Tell me, Sarah Booth, is it your body that's hurt or your heart?"
"Whatever it is, it'll mend. — Carolyn Haines

You," she said, spearing Wayne in the chest with a finger. "I thought I told you not to come back." "I thought I ignored you. — Brandon Sanderson