Paktia Attan Quotes & Sayings

And you wonder, what's wrong with me? Will anyone beautiful want me? — David Henry Hwang

I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize. — LeBron James

Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.
[The Instrumentalities of the Night: An Interview with Glen Cook, The SF Site, September 2005] — Glen Cook

Never practice without a thought in mind. — Nancy Lopez

I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators. — Amanda Marshall

Wanting and needing are two different things. — Richelle Mead

The natural world is full of females falling hard for stupid male display behavior, including bright feathers, big antlers, and bombastic courtship rituals. — Richard Conniff

This I need to be told?" she'd snapped. As if, sitting in this kitchen where she felt the disapproving presence of his dead mother, she could forget where he'd grown up. Cole was the youngest of six children, with five sisters who'd traveled no farther than the bottom of the hollow, where Dad Widener had deeded each daughter an acre on which to build a house when she married, meanwhile saving back the remainder of the sixty-acre farm for his only son, Cole. The family cemetery was up behind the orchard. The Wideners' destiny was to occupy this same plot of land for their lives and eternity, evidently. To them the word town meant Egg Fork, a nearby hamlet of a few thousand souls, nine churches, and a Kroger's. Whereas Lusa was a dire outsider from the other side of the mountains, from Lexington - a place in the preposterous distance. And now she was marooned behind five sisters-in-law who flanked her gravel right-of-way to the mailbox. — Barbara Kingsolver

Change is the part of the very definition of life. The world changes, and flourishing demands constant growth and life-long learning. — Paul Gibbons

They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour. — Joyce Rachelle

Beware, gentle knight. There is no greater monster than reason. — Cormac McCarthy

People change and people keep change and we keep paying ticket fines and hoping that that means something close to love, and I'm bankrupt from missing you. — Shinji Moon

Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him. — Laozi