Pro Bowler Quotes & Sayings

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is — Jodi Picoult

As a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper editors who said he had no talent. One day a minister at a church hired him to draw some cartoons. Disney was working out of a small rodent-infested shed near the church. Seeing a small mouse inspired him to draw a new cartoon. That was the start of Mickey Mouse. — Shiv Khera

It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what's left is all construct, all artifice. — Holly Black

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket. — Harold Holzer

There was, he thought, probably something in the idea that there were only a few people in the world. There were lots of bodies, but only a few people. That's why you kept running into the same ones. — Terry Pratchett

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance. — Shirin Neshat

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around. — Ken Kesey

Dreams are where your deepest fears surface and where your hidden desires are revealed. — Natalie Sauret

I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration is a deepened and highly sensitized feeling with those persons who feel alien in our country. I can feel the strangeness they feel because it is something I have experienced in a different area. — Barbara Jordan

America hadn't really been suited for its long and tiresome role as the Last Superpower, the World's Policeman. As a patriotic American, Oscar was quite content to watch other people's military coming home in boxes for a while. The American national character wasn't suited for global police duties. It never had been. Tidy and meticulous people such as the Swiss and the Swedes were the types who made good cops. America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic, bipolar stand-up comedian. Anything but a somber and tedious nation of socially responsible centurions. — Bruce Sterling

To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities. — Frank Delaney

Fiction writing starts off by requiring the towering arrogance that enables one to sit down at the typewriter in the belief that someone somewhere will actually be eager to read the productions of our own private imaginations. But that arrogance must be buffered by the humility that leads us to learn our craft and strive to make our work comprehensible and inviting and accessible to the reader. — Lawrence Block

Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing ... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you. — James M. Barrie

And generally the shows I'm in fail really big. — Megan Gallagher

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There's always room at the top in every pursuit. — Andrew Carnegie