Pickard Quotes & Sayings

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people. — Nancy Pickard

You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places his faith in the laws of physics. He will go up in direct proportion to the strength with which he pushed off, and he will come down every time. — Nancy Pickard

We must start talking differently about poverty
and start doing something differently. — Gary Haugen

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets. — Nancy Pickard

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is. — Nancy Pickard

No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps. — Max Born

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate. — Nancy Pickard

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true. — Nancy Pickard

Music is the true elixir of life. — Avijeet Das

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

...in a county where romantic partners were as scarce as yaks. — Nancy Pickard

It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read. — Nancy Pickard

God is a name we give to love. — Nancy Pickard

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses. — Nancy Pickard

Where there are problems, there are angels hovering about just waiting for us to ask them to help us transform our suffering into blessings. I'm not being religious, I'm telling you the truth as I have experienced it ... And I'm not being trendy either. I was talking to angels long before they got fashionable ... So maybe you don't believe in angels, that's all right, they don't care. They're not like Tinkerbell, you know, they don't depend on your faith to exist. A lot of people didn't believe the earth was round either, but that didn't make it any flatter. — Nancy Pickard

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. — Theodor Adorno