Parris Goebel Quotes & Sayings

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone. — Anne Lamott

Gibran says: Once I asked such a scarecrow, "I can understand the farmer who made you - he needs you. I can understand the poor animals - they don't have great intelligence to see that you are bogus. But in the rain, in the sun, in the hot summer, in the cold winter, you remain standing here: for what?" And the scarecrow said, "You don't know my joy. Just to make those animals afraid is such a joy that it is worth suffering rain, suffering sun, suffering heat, winter, everything. I am making thousands of animals afraid! I know I am bogus, there is nothing inside me, but I don't care about that. My joy is in making others afraid." I want to ask you: Would you like to be just like this bogus man - nothing inside, making somebody afraid, making somebody happy, making somebody humiliated, making somebody respectful? Is your life only for others? Will you ever look inside? — Osho

Sometimes it was entirely right and proper to be awed. And recognising the physics in these formations, the hand of time and matter and the nuclear forces underpinning all things, did not lessen that feeling. What — Alastair Reynolds

Don't always do to others what you would like them to do to you - their tastes could be very different from yours. — Fernando Savater

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial. — Norah Jones

I have been sorry for married women oftener than for old maids. — Florence Converse

I've always been a streaky hitter. For the most part, when my home runs come, they come in bunches. — Adrian Gonzalez

It's as much a writer's concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him. — Ilya Ehrenburg