One Chapter Closes Another Opens Quotes & Sayings

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics. — Jim Capaldi

It is never the thing but the version of the thing. — Wallace Stevens

And now I knew myself to be generous with encouragement only when I either did not want the thing the other person sought of did not believe the person would really get it. — Curtis Sittenfeld

But even if you have what everyone else wants- if it isn't what you want, it isn't what you want — Tammara Webber

Words are harsh mistresses, to be sure. Like petulant divas, they want only those parts that play to their talents and mask their blemishes, and only when complete companies of players who love their parts are assembled will they sing in harmony. I am your director for this stage production and will employ my best wiles to create a performance both truthful, and beautiful. I know that words are tricksters who show one face to you and another to me, so I am never certain you'll hear in your head what I hear in my head. Since I deliver even this little truth with words, I acknowledge the irony. — Dennis Vickers

village." The scholar, Lewis declares, has "lived in many times" and can thus challenge the automatic presumption of finality inherent in present judgements and trends: We need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems certain to the uneducated is merely temporary fashion.58 — Alister E. McGrath

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it. — Dan Gable

Did something happen to you in the dark, Sam?'. They always wanted to know. Because they assumed all fear must come from a thing or a place. An event. Cause and effect. Like fear was part of an algebra equation.
No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.
-Sam — Michael Grant

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life? — Jack LaLanne

People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away. — Dan Ariely

Maybe nobody went to see the Rolling Stones here in 1964,' said Ros. 'The dead shark was just too much fun. — Nick Hornby

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived. — Gordon Parks

I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat. — Paloma Faith