Parvenue Quotes & Sayings

One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not. — Benjamin Franklin

The world is screaming. — Rick Yancey

Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it. — Andrew-Lee Potts

You can put someone in a new home, but you can't give them a new mindset. — Dan Phillips

Look for the clutter in your writing and prune it ruthlessly. Be grateful for everything you can throw away. Reexamine each sentence you put on paper. Is every word doing new work? Can any thought be expressed with more economy? — William Zinsser

Somebody says, 'Well, I can't be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself' Well, then you will always be poor. — Jim Rohn

The idea of being close to where pigments were mined - that's the first thing in making a painting, getting the material. And what's the last thing you do in making a painting? You put a frame around it. — Susan Vreeland

hypocrisy; rejecting what you firmly have in your fist — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject. — Meryl Streep

We've all got flesh. I've just got a little more. — Jami Attenberg

What if God wants us to be happy? What if there's nothing else around the bend? What if all our unhappiness is in the past and from here on out we get an uncomplicated life? Some people get that, you know. Why shouldn't it be us? — Cristina Henriquez

It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we don't correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him. — R.C. Sproul

What a hard thing it is to write of love! Easy enough to describe the burning brand of lust, or yearning of infatuation, that yearning that can never be assuaged. But love! There is only the word, and the knowing it. — Carolly Erickson

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books. — Chuck Palahniuk

Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth. — Jack Welch