Pestka Obituary Quotes & Sayings

If the greatest danger one faces as a slave is displeasing one's masters, this is the second: pleasing them. — Jacqueline Carey

Statistics are just people with the tears wiped off. — Spencer Rascoff

Art has always been aware of itself as art. — Mary Ruefle

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract. — Joaquin Phoenix

The role of a chef isn't to reinvent dishes but to tweak. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I am not sorry, she realized. She had chosen to live freely as a killer rather than die quietly as a slave, and she could not regret that. — Leigh Bardugo

Eddie is like one of those great relief pitchers in baseball who gets the strikeout at the right time. Belfour comes up with the great saves when you need them. — Rick Tocchet

It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated. — Leo Tolstoy

I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to seeing potentially horrifying things on the Internet. — Katharine Isabelle

Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher, being on the mound to win the pennant, everyone congratulating me. But a few minutes later, you realize you're not going where you want to go. I was trying to get back in the dugout. Thank God for the Boston police, they were able to control the crowd. It was delirium. — Jim Lonborg

Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs. — Og Mandino

Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me. — David B. Coe