Polly Higgins Quotes & Sayings

Daddy said you're a flat-chested old maid who probably sleeps with your legs crossed. — Patricia Watters

I don't like to make my life like a book. — Marc Newson

UPON FACES ANGEL TEARS ... YOUR VOICES IN OUR EARS — Widad Akreyi

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it. — Gustavo Dudamel

He waited a second, then made an abrupt flapping motion with his hands. "Well?" he demanded. "I'm a vampire, you silly woman. Ask me in! We're wanted felons, you know! — Rachel Caine

It was a face that needed soap and water and Christian tolerance. — Sylvia Plath

You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me. — Dave Eggers

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get. — John Hawkes

Those previous versions of herself were so distant now that remembering them was almost like remembering other people, acquaintances, young women whom she'd known a long time ago, and she felt such compassion for them. "I regret nothing," she told her reflection in the ladies' room mirror, and believed it. — Emily St. John Mandel

Found a book called Thriving Not Surviving in a box on the street. I stood there, flipping through it, unwilling to commit. — Jenny Offill

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment. — Nhat Hanh

If you can live well and be happy without causing unnecessary harm, why wouldn't you? — Gene Baur

It's like there's this wave coming toward me, but there's nothing I can do about it. And then it reaches me, crashes over me and ... and I'm done for another day. I just give up. Give in to it. Because how do you stop a wave?
You don't. And you're wise to recognize your powerlessness to do so. But what you can do is learn how to negotiate this wave. Work within the context of its inevitability. — Wally Lamb

It is a great blessing to wake each day and give thanks to God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life. — Thomas Mann