Parris Greed Quotes & Sayings

And it's still unclear to me why a person has abilities that they do not want to have, why a person feels things that person doesn't want to feel and why that person doesn't feel things that person does want to feel, and why a person falls out of love when being in love was such a good thing to be in, and why a person makes loud and clumsy attempts at midnight to kill the life one could reasonably expect that person to want to preserve. — Catherine Lacey

These words "accessible" and "emotionally available" get thrown at us from agents and editors and publishers - or the reverse - if it's not all goo-ey and sentimental we're told it's "cold" or "uncaring" or "emotionally vacant." In other words, responses to women's writing in particular continue to be "gendered." — Lidia Yuknavitch

a television bomb would instantly blind you with its eruption of images as its icons burned through your flesh and imprinted themselves on your bones in tiny hieroglyphs that recounted the brief history of the body's destruction. — Jeff VanderMeer

Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished. — Rachel Lambert Mellon

All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in. — Michael Moritz

To be in peace, grow calmness and compassion in your heart. — Debasish Mridha

I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before. — Philip O Ceallaigh

Some say sky is the limit but I say your assignment is the limit — Dr Lloyd Magangeni

Never ... stop at the boundaries of what you think your knowledge or training would suggest. If a problem grabs you, run with it and try to understand it from beginning to end, even if that means learning new techniques or developing them yourself. — Judith Rodin

Lead only if no one is following. — Marty Rubin

If you SENSE something, SAY something. — Stephanie Arnold

Those who look behind will never see beyond. — Sherry K. White

We can't afford to be killing one another. — Nelson Mandela