Passakos Wings Quotes & Sayings

I nodded sagely. "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." Masur looked at me quizzically. "Dan Quayle said that," I added. Whether he actually did or not, I liked the quote. — Joseph Finder

Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent ... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the frontiers of freedom of expression or ... demonstrating that there should be no limit on subject matter. — Anthony Burgess

He who knows how to use the power of love is the most powerful. — Debasish Mridha

Man need discomfort for awaken. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I was unstoppable, slamming down on the keys as if I were playing before a packed concert hall. Write! Write! Write! — Tiffanie DiDonato

You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so ... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself. — Kenny Wormald

I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior is. — Elizabeth Strout

Generations cometh and generations passeth, but the earth abideth forever. While successive generations live and die, and all things change, man can never rest until death claims us. I choose to use my time alone to contemplate human existence, probe the human condition, and trace what it means to be one man in our modern world. There can be no profit from my labor, no lasting yield realized from this laborious and painful sojourn. We will leave everything behind. The earth shall dissolve all of our acquisitions and obliterate all traces of our petty affections. Passage of time shall alter, not annihilate the products of any artistic labors. The substance of our artistic enterprises shall continue forward in a renewed and redefined state. — Kilroy J. Oldster

You're the only you you get in this life! Show a little appreciation! — Dennis Vickers

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum. — Mark Twain

Reading/writing is a chance to live a different life in a different world. — Tarang Sinha

It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling balls. Nobody said, Show Me! — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It's possible I've been through too much, lost too much. War damages different people in different ways; Hector taught me that. King Alejandro became spineless and incapable. His father before him was rash and unpredictable, if I'm to believe court gossip. Perhaps this is my damage. Maybe I am numb to fear because I am broken. — Rae Carson

I know people have very little control on an airplane, and that exacerbates the fear of flying. As you probably know, flying is a lot safer than driving. If you think of the thousands of take-offs and landings every day--and the miniscule amount of crashes--that has to put your mind at ease. — Wendy Sue Knecht