Pierene Quotes & Sayings

I was always a little insecure. I had brothers that played football, so I was just a straight-up tomboy for a minute. I didn't know makeup and hair stuff. My friends had to tell me what a straightener was. I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist. — Meghan Trainor

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits. — Sue Grafton

He repeated his plea that they be fair and open-minded, open to reason and compromise, and praised them for being so reasonable and open-minded thus far - which of course made it harder for them to act otherwise, — Robert A. Caro

Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording. — Slim Moon

The center of our story is the tension between the yearning to create a home and the urge to get out of it. I — Gail Collins

The greatest lesson you might ever learn in this life is this: It is not about you. — Shannon L. Alder

Maybe we can relax here for a few seconds," says Little B. "Oops, time's up," says Howler, slapping his hand on Little B's shoulder. "Back to being tense and hunted. — Susan Ee

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs. — Tori Amos

Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls. — Michael Jackson

There's a fundamental stupidity in mankind which is as eternal as life itself. — Gustave Flaubert

I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself. — David Hornsby

But in doing so
moving forward ...
he's still dealing with the past. It's always strung out behind us, innit, attached to our arses like a roll of toilet paper we trail out of the bathroom, pointing the way to the giant shite we just took. It doesn't matter if we flushed it down; Everyone still knows what we did there. So its fine to say it's all done and you have no connection with the past, that you're a new person every second, but silly in my view to pretend that person isn't made of the old one. — Kevin Hearne

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. — Ambrose Bierce

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places. — Wallace Stegner

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first. — Ellen Goodman