Pequea Valley Quotes & Sayings

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. — David Simon

My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves. — Elisabeth Of Wied

Be kind to be awesome. — Debasish Mridha

The concept of marketing is almost as old as humanity itself ... suffice it to say here that it took almost no time for a wily serpent to sell Adam and Eve on a shiny apple from the Tree of Knowledge, at which point they became not only the first humans but also the first marketing demographic, and God expelled them from the Garden of Eden for being total consumerist dupes. (p. 40) — BikeSnobNYC

I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than
thou learn a prayer without book. — William Shakespeare

Not everyone can look past an insult and continue to work with the person who slights them — Jean Johnson

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger. — Rachel Maddow

The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer. — Henry Beston

What I'm feeling, I think, is joy. And it's been some time since I've felt that blinkered rush of happiness, This might be one of those rare events that lasts, one that'll be remembered and recalled as months and years wind and ravel. One of those sweet, significant moments that leaves a footprint in your mind. A photograph couldn't ever tell its story. It's like something you have to live to understand. One of those freak collisions of fizzing meteors and looming celestial bodies and floating debris and one single beautiful red ball that bursts into your life and through your body like an enormous firework. Where things shift into focus for a moment, and everything makes sense. And it becomes one of those things inside you, a pearl among sludge, one of those big exaggerated memories you can invoke at any moment to peel away a little layer of how you felt, like a lick of ice cream. The flavor of grace. — Craig Silvey

I think at the end of the day you have to find a balance with what's really important. — Julianne Hough

I'm not a big breakfast eater. — Michael Mina

Once when Gold was visiting in Florida,his father drew him across the street just to meet some friends and introduced him by saying,"This is my son's brother.The one that never amounted to much. — Joseph Heller

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free. — Henry David Thoreau

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point. — Solange Knowles

I reached out for something else and found it: the red croquet mallet, just occurring there on the ground like some easy device, some plot element stashed there for the big finale. — Daniel Handler