Polakiewicz Quotes & Sayings

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure
fearlessness and achievement. — Joseph Campbell

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else. — Gemma Arterton

A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation. — Thomas Sowell

My books are my brain and my heart made visible. — Merilyn Simonds

No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.' — Alice McDermott

Nearly every shift, I'm asking myself, What do I do with this patient now that he has shown up here in my ER? What does he need from us right now? Unfortunately, the most common answer is: He needs a childhood transplant, he needs to start over - with loving parents this time, in a caring, nurturing environment. — Julie Holland

Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out ... though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love. — J.K. Rowling

What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when its needed? — Jodi Picoult

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing. — Ethan Embry

Lou reluctantly drew back, still holding Joe, and placed his soft lips on Joe's own. Existence reacted to their reunion. Immediately, it was as if two halves became whole once again. The sky flashed colors overhead as they stood together: day to night, night to day. They stood motionless and kissing for so long a period that they might have been mistaken for part of the landscape, as vines climbed up their legs and grass grew around them; as dirt gathered and buried even more the scattered fragments of the abbey. Only the keepers of time knew that lifetimes did indeed pass, possibly entire eras. And yet it was but a scant moment to Joe and Lou. All of it but a simple, longed-for embrace neither time nor death could contain. — Eric Arvin

It's the greatest thing in the world, natural enthusiasm. You are nothing without it. — Bill Shankly

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back. — John Denver

When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you re-light it and shoot everything else from the opposite side, so it's really important that you stick exactly to what's written. — Chris Pratt