Ouzel Bird Quotes & Sayings

Humor, like Death, has all seasons for his own. — Ambrose Bierce

There weren't words for it. It was like trying to photograph a sunset or telling the story of a dream dreamt, a private intensity, and attempts at its reproduction could only be met with a shrug. — Stefan Merrill Block

You can't mine coal without machine guns. — Richard B. Mellon

I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn't mine ... — Rita Rudner

True Christianity cuts across all other religions and creates its own culture. — Dr. J. Otis Yoder

Do not expect me to fall in with the evil customs and ways of the world. I am in Rome, but I will not do as Rome does. I am an alien, a stranger, and a foreigner. My citizenship is in heaven. — Billy Graham

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. — Thomas Aquinas

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. — Herman Melville

But when I look at myself squarely, it's not just that I have a few difficulties or unresolved issues. Unlike those lucky people for whom therapy or medication delivers them back to themselves, I've been suffering from something that was unnamable for most of my life. Yes, I've had periods of relative stability, but the whole concept of "recovery" brings up some painful questions. What do I recover? With drug addiction, you hear that you can recover and reclaim your former self, the person you were before you started using. With other psychiatric illnesses, getting rid of symptoms means you're more or less back to "yourself." But what if you simply don't have a solid self to return to - if the way you are is seen as basically broken? And what if you can't conceive of "normal" or "healthy" because pain and loneliness are all you remember? "You were such a happy child," my mother says. But I don't remember that. So what do I recover? — Kiera Van Gelder

I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched. — Vikas Swarup

Mad as a fucking hatter. Jesus, — Mark Haddon

I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program. — James Bernard Frost