Pg 274 Quotes & Sayings

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. — James F. Cooper

Music should never be harmless. — Robbie Robertson

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas. — Patrick Ness

When the truth would be unbearable the mind often just blanks it out. But some ghost of an event may stay in your head. Then, like the smudge of a bad word quickly wiped off a school blackboard, this ghost can call undue attention to itself by its very vagueness. You keep studying the dim shape of it, as if the original form will magically emerge. This blank spot in my past, then, spoke most loudly to me by being blank. It was a hole in my life that I both feared and kept coming back to because I couldn't quite fill it in. — Mary Karr

My hand, I said her name. — Jami Attenberg

If I'm doing a talk show or an interview, or pretty much anything where I can't control the context, I'm loath to do the character. — Stephen Colbert

Lvov: Now explain, give me an account of how it is that you, an intelligent, honest, almost saintly woman, have allowed yourself to be so brazenly deceived, to be dragged into this owl's nest. Why are you here? What have you in common with this cold, heartless ... but let's forget your husband
what do you have in common with this empty vulgar milieu? — Anton Chekhov

What have I earned from you, Valek? Loyalty? Respect? Trust?"
"You have my attention. But give me what I want, and you can have everything. — Maria V. Snyder

Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair. — Lemony Snicket

I'm pragmatic. I like efficiency. I want to read what's in front of me and not have my hands tied. — Susan Brooks

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for. — David Mamet

Keeping your head above the water only works if the air is clean. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life.'
-Patch (PG 274) — Becca Fitzpatrick

Overcoming procrastination is not, I repeat, not about cramming additional work into your day ... overcoming procrastination is about simplifying your life to make space for the activities that matter most. — Richie Norton

Let nothing dim the light that shines from within — Maya Angelou