Nowland Lake Quotes & Sayings

If you spend twenty years trying to get something and you still don't have it, is it admirable to keep trying? Or did you pass admirable several miles back and it's getting close to straitjacket time?
If you are no closer to having something you've been chasing for twenty years, your data is broken. Either you can't get it, period; you already have it; you don't really need or want it; or it's not real. — Augusten Burroughs

Men are like shoes. Some fit better than others. And sometimes you go out shopping and there's nothing you like. And then, as luck would have it, the next week you find two that are perfect, but you don't have the money to buy both.- — Janet Evanovich

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind. — Mencius

Once I had thought chiefly of the man of letters, the traveler, the poet, the lover; none of that had faded, to be sure, but now for the first time I could see among all those figures, standing out with great clarity of line, the most official and yet the most hidden form of all, that of the emperor. The fact of having lived in a world which is toppling around us had taught me the importance of the Prince. — Marguerite Yourcenar

They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and wrong. You are filled with fears. This conditioning interferes with your psychic perception. — Frederick Lenz

A fucking masochist and a sadist. Worst of the nuts to crack: the ones who didn't care what happened to themselves. — Eric Rickstad

Lately, I've become sort of a fatalist. Well, that was bound to happen. — Alex Bosworth

Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog. — Earl Derr Biggers

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool. — Steve Carell