Priscille Lafitte Quotes & Sayings

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad. — Robert Cormier

I have sold 120 million records. Half of those could be in Europe. — Slim Whitman

Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have. — Sheryl Crow

Taping yourself and making yourself listen to the tape of each performance no matter how bad is really important. There's always a nugget line or a direction pointed out to you in even the worst show. — Franklyn Ajaye

A chiropractor accomplished in three weeks what the army doctors haven't been able to do in two years. — George Kennedy

I'm a storyteller. — Ang Lee

spiritual practice is conspiratorial rather than inspirational; it conspires to strip away everything you use to maintain the illusion of certainty, security, and self-identity. Where spiritual writing seeks to bind you all the more tightly to the self you imagine yourself to be, writing as a spiritual practice intends to free you — Rami M. Shapiro

I'm an e-patient: equipped, enabled, empowered, engaged. I'm no clinician, but I do everything in my power to help them, to play an active role in my own care, and even in the design of care. — Dave DeBronkart

I've never ceased to be amazed at the survival skills of poor children. I've learned how much children can actually do for themselves if only we provide the necessary means. That part is up to us. — Landon Pearson

Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

A novelist's sense that he or she is 'above' a certain genre mainly comes out of the notion that the genre is somehow a debased version of his or her preferred form. — Lynn Coady

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning. — Karl Kraus